Celine Cawley

Celine Cawley (196215December 2008) was an Irish model, actor, and businessperson.

Background Cawley was born in 1962 to Brenda and James Cawley. She grew up in Howth, County Dublin, and had three siblings: Susanna, Chris, and Barbara. Barbara died of cancer in 1998. Brenda Cawley died in 2007. James Cawley was a well-known solicitor specialising in corporate law. He was a managing partner of legal firm Cawley Sheerin Wynne where Tony O'Reilly was also a partner. James Cawley later served on the board of O'Reilly's company Independent News and Media.

Cawley attended primary school at Malahide Community School Scoil Íosa in Malahide and also Santa Sabina convent Sutton and secondary school at Clermont Convent in County Wicklow. She briefly dated Mark McEnroe, the younger brother of tennis star John McEnroe. In 1990, she met Eamonn Lillis in Kinsale, County Cork. They married in 1991 at the Church of the Assumption, Howth. They had one child, Georgia, in 1992. Their relationship deteriorated but they remained married and kept separate bedrooms. In 1990, Cawley set up Toytown Productions with her husband, Eamonn. It became a successful advertising agency.