Pictured (L-R) Miss Gillies Zoe Robb from Randalstown,2013 Miss NI Meagan Green and Miss Ballymena Emma Zacharopoulou from Jordanstown.
Miss Spice Lisburn Sara Murphy and Miss Lisburn Claire McErlean.
Pictured Spice Lisburn's Top Seven (L-R), Nicole Caldwell,Sara Murphy,Page McLaughlin,Megan Catherine Boe,Lindsay Buick,Claire McErlean and Catherine Mateer.
Miss Spice Lisburn Sara Murphy and Miss Lisburn Claire McErlean.
Miss Northern Ireland Open + Direct 2014 top eight heat in Gillies Bar, Ballymena.
Miss Northern Ireland brought joy this week to three former contestants who have got into the final after a second attempt.
And the latest heat in Gillies Bar at the Galgorm had an international flavour as fluent Greek speaker Emma Zacharopoulou won Miss Ballymena while Miss Gillies Zoe Robb learned Spanish after moving to Mexico for a year at 18.
As the search for a successor to Meagan Green hots up the fifth heat brings to 10 the number of winners who have already booked their place in the final.
Former Miss Northern Ireland Zoe Salmon went along to join the judging panel, which also included Meagan, organiser Alison Clarke, Jonathan Kirkpatrick from co-sponsors Open+Direct and Kirsty Worthington from the Galgorm.
Read more in this week's Sunday World