{"id":623883,"date":"2026-09-14T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/623883\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T00:30:11","slug":"roscommon-woman-crowned-best-dressed-at-the-curragh-and-reveals-her-bag-was-made-from-an-old-box-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/623883\/","title":{"rendered":"Roscommon woman crowned Best Dressed at The Curragh and reveals her bag was made from an old box &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> A Roscommon woman was this afternoon crowned Best Dressed at The Curragh\u2019s final style competition of the year, sculpting her bag from a used Nature Valley box.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3868221_2_articleinline_Curragh_20Grace_20Style_20Sunday_20_33_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Hanlon from Roscommon was crowned Best Dressed at The Curragh's final style competition of the year. She is pictured with Sarah Butler, Siobhan O'Sullivan, marketing executive, The Grace, Westport Estate, Ciaran Reidy, general manager of The Grace, Westport Estate and Marietta Doran. Pic: Lorraine O'Sullivan\" title=\"Laura Hanlon from Roscommon was crowned Best Dressed at The Curragh's final style competition of the year. She is pictured with Sarah Butler, Siobhan O'Sullivan, marketing executive, The Grace, Westport Estate, Ciaran Reidy, general manager of The Grace, Westport Estate and Marietta Doran. Pic: Lorraine O'Sullivan\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Laura Hanlon from Roscommon was crowned Best Dressed at The Curragh&#8217;s final style competition of the year. She is pictured with Sarah Butler, Siobhan O&#8217;Sullivan, marketing executive, The Grace, Westport Estate, Ciaran Reidy, general manager of The Grace, Westport Estate and Marietta Doran. Pic: Lorraine O&#8217;Sullivan<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Designer Laura Hanlon from Fuerty picked up the top prize in the Grace &amp; Glory competition, supported by The Grace, Westport Estate. She revealed on her own social media pages that \u201cnothing is for the bin in my home\u201d. Posting a picture of a Nature Valley box she said: \u201cCan you guess what I made out of this? \u2013 I made this scalloped bag\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3868225_1_articleinline_Curragh_20Grace_20Style_20Sunday_20_34_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Hanlon from Roscommon crowned Best Dressed at The Curragh's final style competition of the year. Pic: Lorraine O'Sullivan\" title=\"Laura Hanlon from Roscommon crowned Best Dressed at The Curragh's final style competition of the year. Pic: Lorraine O'Sullivan\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Laura Hanlon from Roscommon crowned Best Dressed at The Curragh&#8217;s final style competition of the year. Pic: Lorraine O&#8217;Sullivan<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The competition was a celebration of fearless individuality inspired by the bold spirit of Grace O\u2019Malley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Curragh came alive with considered tailoring, natural textiles and statement jewels as racegoers embraced confidence, creativity and authentic Irish style. Judged by Mayo content creator Sarah Butler of Sarah Butler at Home and renowned stylist and broadcaster Marietta Doran, Grace &amp; Glory invited participants to express their own unapologetic sense of style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The style judges selected Laura for her red look that \u201cperfectly captured the bold, fearless spirit\u201d of Grace O\u2019Malley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Laura wore a three-piece ensemble from Phoenix V in Cork, shoes from Vinted and she made her statement headpiece and bag especially for the day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3868223_2_articleinline_Curragh_20Grace_20Style_20Sunday_20_39_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Ciaran Reidy, general manager of The Grace, Westport Estate presents style winner Laura Hanlon with her prize. Pic: Lorraine O'Sullivan\" title=\"Ciaran Reidy, general manager of The Grace, Westport Estate presents style winner Laura Hanlon with her prize. Pic: Lorraine O'Sullivan\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Ciaran Reidy, general manager of The Grace, Westport Estate presents style winner Laura Hanlon with her prize. Pic: Lorraine O&#8217;Sullivan<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Laura walked away with a stay at The Grace, Westport Estate &#8211; including two nights\u2019 bed and breakfast in the Grace Kelly Suite, \u00e0 la carte dining with champagne at Black Sheep, two signature spa treatments, and a half-day chauffeur-driven tour of Clew Bay and Achill Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Roscommon woman was this afternoon crowned Best Dressed at The Curragh\u2019s final style competition of the year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-623883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}