Amanda Brunker


Amanda Brunker is a novelist, journalist and columnist for the Irish Sunday World tabloid newspaper, and former Miss Ireland.
After attending Mount Temple Comprehensive School she turned to modelling, entering and winning the Miss Ireland competition in 1991 when she was 17 years old.

Career

She has continued modelling, acted in the film Head Rush, had a cameo role on the former Irish soap Glenroe, been a nightclub hostess and presented her own late night TV show The Dinner Party.
She also performed at Oxegen 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ib3l8Wx45M The performance was hailed in the Irish and Estonian music press. Brunker declined on multiple offers from record companies to concentrate on her FETAC 4 course.
She published her first novel, entitled Champagne Kisses, on 25 June 2008, followed in June 2009 by a sequel, Champagne Babes.
She participated in season 4 of Celebrity Bainisteoir, managing Aughrim GAA Club, Wicklow.