Connemara sean nos dancer Emma O’Sullivan (see video on right) is the bookies’ fav to win RTE Talent final

Anybody else notice the word “sport” creeping into the Irish dancing vocabulary? “Irish dance is a great sport,” declares one teaching academy which  boasts several North American Irish Dancing Champions among its achievements. About a tenth of such dancing schools drop the word casually on their websites. Elsewhere a dancer tells a forum “how superficial [...]

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