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World Irish Dance Championships 2012

This year’s World Championships 2012 was held at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, N. Ireland. There were more than 4,000 dancers competing over the week of 31 March to 8 April. It was a fantastic competition that resulted in reigning champions keeping their titles and a few new champions which was also great to see. [...]

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Gerry Conlon & Seamus O’Sullivan

World-renowned Irish dance musicians Gerry Conlon and Seamus O’Sullivan have finally launched their website – www.gerryandseamus.com - a superb one-stop-shop catering to Irish dancers of all abilities. Gerry and Seamus, are in my opinion, the gurus of Irish dancing music! They are award winning musicians, respected throughout the Irish dancing community for their unwavering commitment to [...]

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All Scotland Championships 2011

The All Scotland Championships was held in Glasgow on 6-9 October at the prestigious Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, venue of the 2010 World Championships. For the first time ever, the All Scotland Championships was a Secondary World Championships Qualifying event for dancers from the UK and Europe. Always an enjoyable and well-organised event, this year [...]

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Delaney Academy Prague & Warsaw

European World Qualifiers

On 6-7 November in Stuttgart, the Mainland European World Qualifiers took place. Dancers from 20 countries throughout Europe competed at the event, each vying for a place to represent Europe at next year’s World Championships. Our dancers did very well winning 3 championships: Lucas Matera -1st Senior Mens Championship Maciek Skwarek – 1st 18-20 Men [...]

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Lucas Matera, Delaney Academy Warsaw

World Championships 2010

The World Irish Dance Championships took place on 27 March to 4 April 2010 at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. Dancers from all over the world qualified within their region in order to compete at this prestigious event.  The competition was fierce and the nerves ran high for dancers, teachers and parents! The Delaney [...]

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