Twenty-six-year-old South African born Pamela Uba has made history by becoming the first Black woman to win the Miss Ireland title.
Ireland’s national beauty pageant has been around since 1947 and this year there were tears and applause aplenty as Pamela Uba was crowned as its first-ever Black woman winner.
A perfect combination of beauty and brains, Uba, according to The New York Daily News, has a medical science degree and is completing her master’s degree in clinical chemistry from Trinity College Dublin.
The new Miss Ireland is the eldest of six siblings and a former asylum seeker who moved to Ireland from Johannesburg, South Africa, when she was just 7-years-old.
Uba is headed to Puerto Rico in December to represent Ireland at the 70th Miss World competition.
Watch her winning moment right here - congratulations Pamela!
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