Picture Gallery
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Winners with judges
Sligo Weekender reporter Niamh Mullen, owner of Flair Hair Salon Annette Davey, Best Hairdresser Award winner Anthony Kilcoyne, award-winning hair stylist Martha Galvin and Sligo Weekender marketing manager Lydia Rogers.
Best Salon Award Winner
Sligo Weekender Editor Brian McHugh, Niamh Mullen, Best Salon Award Winner Annette Davey, Martha Galvin and Lydia Rogers.
Best Hairdresser Award Winner
Sligo Weekender Editor Brian McHugh, Niamh Mullen, Best Hairdresser Award Winner Anthony Kilcoyne, Martha Galvin and Lydia Rogers.
Best Hairdresser Finalists
Joanne McDaniel of Salon 2, Monica Brady of Monica's Salon, winner Anthony Kilcoyne of Salon 2, Pauline Dineen of Pauline Dineen Hair Design and John Cawley of Joca Hair Design.
Best Salon Finalists
Lydia Murray, owner of Lydia Murray Hair and Beauty, Annette Davey, owner of award winning salon Flair Hair Salon, Finuala McMunn, owner of Finuala's Hair Design and Anthony Kilcoyne, owner of Salon 2.
Pauline Dineen is pictured with Martha Galvin.
Joanne McDaniel is pictured with Martha Galvin.
Monica Brady is pictured with Martha Galvin.
Lydia Murray is pictured with Martha Galvin.
The Flair Hair Team
Lydia Murray Hair and Beauty Salon team.
Anthony Kilcoyne celebrates after winning the Best Hairdressers Award.
The Salon 2 Team
Pauline Dineen is pictured with her partner.
Pauline Dineen brought along lots of support on the night.
Lillian Boye and Monica Brady.
Olivia Britton and Cora
Supporters of Flair Hair Salon, winner of the Golden Scissors Best Community Salon award.
Enjoying the Golden Scissors awards night are Meave O’Healy-Harte, Publisher of Irish Hairdresser Magazine and Martha Galvin, award-winning stylist and Golden Scissors judge.
Niamh Mullen, Martha Galvin and Lydia Rogers.
Meet our judges...
Niamh Mullen
NIAMH
is a reporter with the Sligo Weekender newspaper. She has been
working for the Paper since January 2007.
She is from Dublin and studied Journalism at Dublin City University.
She worked at the Irish Examiner as part of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings
Higher Diploma in Journalism before taking a full-time post with the
Weekender, where she continues to study for the Diploma.
She began working on the Golden Scissors competition in February. She
visited salons in Sligo to get hair care tips, interview customers,
find out about the latest trends as well as get hairdressers to confess
their secrets to her.
Martha Galvin
MARTHA, a hairdresser from Ballina, is delighted to be on
the judging panel for the Golden Scissors Awards.
She always knew she wanted to be a hairdresser. By the time she was
four years old she had already cut the cat’s fur and trimmed her
mother’s mink coat.
Martha is now an award-winning hairdresser and successful business women.
She owns Martha Galvin Hairdressing in Ballina. She started out in 1998
and now employs nine staff. The salon specialises in colour, cutting
and bridal work.
Martha said her love of hairdressing is what motivates her. “It
is so creative. There are so many aspects to hairdressing. I never get
bored. There is huge variety and I am able to be an individual.”
Lydia Rogers
LYDIA
is Area Marketing Manager for Thomas Crosbie Holdings Connacht
newspapers, including Western People, Roscommon Herald and Sligo Weekender.
She commented: “Golden Scissors is such an innovative idea and
I’m delighted to be involved in the initiative. It originally
started out as an editorial-led feature competition but it has grown
to so much more. It really has created a stir in the hairdressing industry!"
She added: “Sligo Weekender is committed to making a difference
in the community and I think with Golden Scissors we have certainly
achieved that goal. Golden Scissors has acted as a platform for readers
to show their appreciation for their hairdressers and it’s fantastic
that hairdressers get the opportunity to realise and understand how
much their customers value them. It’s obvious from the nominations
that women have such a strong rapport and affinity with their hairdressers”.
Kate O'Hara
KATE,
Sales and Marketing Executive at the Raddisson SAS Hotel and
Spa in Sligo, is on the judging panel for the Golden Scissors Awards.
Kate must be the envy of every woman in Sligo as she has a top class
Spa at her disposal just minutes walk from her desk at work.
Whenever she feels she needs some pampering then the Solas Spa &
Wellness Centre hits the mark every time.
"Like any job, there is pressure but it's an enjoyable job. It's
great to have the Spa here. It's up and running for a year and a half
and it's going really well."
"A visit to the Spa is like walking into a different world. You
already feel relaxed when you get into your robe and slippers and after
that you can take your own individual journey of relaxation and pampering,"
said Kate.
And located just five minutes drive from Sligo town and surrounded by
the beautiful scenes of Rosses Point, there's no excuse as to why you
should not experience the Solas Spa and Wellness Centre.