30.04.09

Collette Star Treks For Clozure... You can't keep a good Donegal woman down folks. And it seems former Irish Army Lieutenant Collette McBarron has bounced-back after her much publicised court martial and subsequent resignation from the Defense Forces. We caught up with the eldest McBarron sis (and her Clozure boyband chum) at the Star Trek Premiere afterparty this week... Collette McBarron, Andy Rice (Clozure) We all know it's a hard slog for a woman to make it in a male oriented world, so it's probably many times harder to make it in the traditionally macho military environment. But when the Lieutenant in question happens to be a pretty blonde wannabe Beauty Queen with penchant for appearing in the Social Diary pages on the arms of famous men, there was always gonna be trouble. Collette McBarron, Andy Rice (Clozure) So when 2nd Lt Collette McBarron stepped out from behind the army beret and attempted to replace it with a Miss Ireland tiara, things started to go wrong for the Northern lass. The military babe's double life of early morning parades at Cathal Brugha Barracks and late nights at Krystle nightclub put a lot of noses out of joint, eventually forcing the Donegal native to quit her post. Collette McBarron & Clozure (Paul Hughes, Jo Petit, Andy Rice, Ryan Davis) But with all the media fuss and focus on our Collette, the usually camera friendly blonde kept an understandable low profile over the past few weeks... That was until Tuesday night when she attended the Irish Premiere of the most excellent Star Trek movie and afterparty at Sycamore club. Miss McBarron seemed to back to her old self and even took a shine to boyband hunk Andy Rice and his big red strawberry! Ahem. Well, it's about time she got some 'Clozure' on all that army nonsense! (See what we did there folks? Genius!) Hayley Rock, Veronica Ryan Most of Dublin's social butterflies attended the Star Trek red carpet event at The Savoy this week. And all you doubters out there, who think Star Trek is tres naff, check this film out. Really. It rocked! At the end of this re-imagined sci-fi epic, Trekkies and non Trekkies alike, gave this film the biggest round of applause we can remember in recent memory. Veronica Ryan, Hayley Rock, Dawn Fitzgerald As the guests poured out of the O'Connell Street cinematorium and made their way to the Sycamore club afterparty in Temple Bar, our naughty snapper jumped out and pappped the hell outta Lillies hostess Hayley Rock and her hat designer pal Veronica 'Ronnie' Ryan. Both shocked beauties instinctively jumped into karate stances with handbags at the ready wallop our lens-man! All you would-be muggers beware. Don't mess with these kung-fu fillies. Hiiyaaaaa! Sara Kavanagh Both Hayley and Veronica were joined at Sycamore by red haired fashion designer Dawn Fitzgerald who is just freshly back in Dublin after a stint working for big name brands in the Far East... (Maybe that's where they picked up those slick Martial Arts moves?) Elaine Crowley, Jim O'Leary Other guests at the Star Trek afterparty included model Sara Kavanagh, TV3's Elaine Crowley, Jim O'Leary, Aaron Weinerib, and the rest of the Clozure boys: Paul Hughes, Jo Petit & Ryan Davis. And many more... Dawn Fitzgerald, Aaron Weinerib Live long and prosper folks, and go easy on the McMunter comments!

*Users can ONLY comment via the ShowBiz.ie site Leave a Comment rach – donegal July 03, 2009 - 13:39 ur only sticking up 4 the mc barrons cos ur their stylist or watever it is u do to them! lol rach – donegal July 03, 2009 - 13:36 haha ur 1 2 b talking.... u shud take a wee look inda mirror before u critisize people. modelling is a well paid job if ur good looking and d mc barrons r clearly not! i'd rather b a nice normal lookin girl than look like something out of a horror film and b the laughingstock of donegal town! n by d way my life is perfect thanx :D Daniel – Donegal Town June 07, 2009 - 19:19 Ha rachel, you make me laugh. I can just imagine the hack of you! Go away and get your life sorted before interfering with others. And modeling is a well paid job actually, pity ur so fat and ugly you cant fit into a photo. rach – donegal June 03, 2009 - 09:24 was lookin at some pics of the mc barrons there, and they all wear each others clothes.... the recession must b hitting everyone hard! they r such a waste of space its not even funny! and dont think people in donegal adore u either... we all just get a good laugh when we c ya coming! go get a real job, cos id say the modelling aint gonna last 2 long... John – Dublin May 17, 2009 - 17:09 "Hot" my arse, she's like the back end of a Mowag. Gerald – D May 14, 2009 - 12:55 Colette did wat the majority of the army want to do and thats to get the FU*K out!! Dont even need an army? Like wat do they do anyways? Shes young, hot, has a sexy bod and is doing her own thing! Im shur she lovin how it annoying so many ppl!! This site is funny with all the b!tchiness and back stabbing!! Go on Colette!! x Marcus – Exiled to dublin May 13, 2009 - 21:26 Man, Collette sure burned some bridges with the Army. Meh, they wanna pose, let 'em pose. But Army Wimmin are *nyom* rhett – dublin May 10, 2009 - 18:07 hmmm not sure that shes his type ive herd that hes a regualr in the george - no wonder shes cosing up to him for a strawbery Aoife – Dublin May 06, 2009 - 10:37 Oh please Sasha, take your good manners elsewhere. You said yourself there are no celebrities on this site - so why would anyone come on here OTHER than to marvel at the pathetic shallowness, silliness, vanity and misplaced self-adoration of so many of these people? This is the last vestige of the Celtic Tiger, by exposing it for what it is we are performing an important social function. If this site was only for people who came on here to admire and envy these people it would die a swift and sudden death... Sasha – Dublin May 05, 2009 - 13:45 I visit the site once a month and always manage to find the same people leaving the same comments on the same people featured.there are no celebrities in Dublin.This is probably why photographers take photos of people such as the McBarrons.if you don't like the people, stop visiting the site. Don't comment if you have nothing nice to say,thats what people with good manners and sense of tact do.if the people in the photos earn money with their professions-models, designers,etc-obviously they are more or less good at it.im really not trying to be rude or to crytisize,but leave the people alone Jim – dublin May 05, 2009 - 09:12 Who the hell is that girl Dawn? Fashion designer my eye! Surely she should have observed the redheads shouldnt wear pink rule! She is hideous looking! johnny – dublin May 04, 2009 - 09:06 i thought she got booted out of the army, she didn't quit. she looks a bit like a hermaphrodite so that explains the whole army thing i suppose. this isn't showbiz news anyway who the f@#k is she? Observer – Dublin May 01, 2009 - 21:52 McBarron must really miss those Army paycheques Aoife – Dublin May 01, 2009 - 16:22 FOMcMs. Gav – Dublin May 01, 2009 - 12:29 How is this McBarron munter "Showbiz" related? Sad. Sinead – Athlone May 01, 2009 - 10:22 wow phwoar what "fine" things those Clozure guys are any chance they will be winging their way to my town !! daniel – donegal town April 30, 2009 - 18:05 looking well there collette..x Model A1 – Dublin April 30, 2009 - 17:37 that strawberry photo is WRONG on so many levels i will have nightmares tonight, and tomorrow night, and the night after that......... blah blah April 30, 2009 - 13:59 harrr de harrr handbag karate :D v ryan's expression is priceless! ditto on the lack of celebs jamesy, well at least they had a mcmunter there :) jamesy – who cares April 30, 2009 - 13:52 what a crowd of beeps jasus where are all the celebs these dayz SHOWBIZ.IE – Recommended Links April 30, 2009 - 13:44 Star Trek: www.startrekmovie.com Leave a Comment * Your name * Your email address (will not be published) Your location Remember me ? ? Powered by TalkBack 1