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Ryan McShane
Ryan McShane (born 22 January 1985) is a Northern Irish dancer and Choreography (dance), choreographer. He, alongside his professional partner, Ksenia Zsikhotska, were the 2016 United Kingdom & British Latin Professional Champions and British Show Dance Champions. He is also known as being one of the professional dancers on the Dancing with the Stars (Irish TV series), Irish version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Early life McShane was born in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. He started dancing at the age of seven. Career In 2015, McShane toured with ''Strictly Come Dancing'' professional Brendan Cole's ''A Night to Remember'' tour across the UK and Ireland. In 2016, McShane and partner, Ksenia Zsikhotska, were crowned United Kingdom & British Latin Professional Champions & British Show Dance Champions. ''Got to Dance'' In 2013, McShane took part in the Sky One dance competition show, Got to Dance alongside partner, Ksenia Zsikhotska. They received three gold stars from the judge ...
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Lurgan
Lurgan () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near the southern shore of Lough Neagh and roughly southwest of Belfast. The town is linked to Belfast by both the M1 motorway (Northern Ireland), M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin railway line. Lurgan had a population of 31,136 (38,198 District Area) at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 UK census, and falls within the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council, Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough. For certain purposes, Lurgan is treated as part of the "Craigavon Urban Area", along with neighbouring Craigavon, County Armagh, Craigavon and Portadown. Lurgan is typical of many Plantation of Ulster settlements, with its straight and wide, planned streets, and is the home of a number of historic listed buildings, such as Brownlow House and Lurgan Town Hall. Lurgan Park is the largest urban park in Northern Ireland. Historically, and after the Industrial Revolution, the town of Lurgan was known as a major centre ...
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Neil Jones (dancer)
Neil Jones (born 4 May 1982) is a British dancer and choreographer, best known for his role as a professional dancer in the BBC One dance series ''Strictly Come Dancing''. Dance career Jones began dancing at the age of three. He has danced ballet and trained in tap, modern, ballroom and Latin styles. He has represented Finland, the Netherlands and the UK during the course of his competitive career. He holds 45 dance championship titles, including eight times British National, eight times Dutch National, European and four times World Latin Champion including World Latin Showdance Champion. With his partner Katya Jones he was introduced at Blackpool in 2008. The couple became undefeated four-time British National Champions, and the three-time winners of the World Amateur Latin Championships. Katya Jones is also a professional dancer who also appears on the BBC celebrity dancing show ''Strictly Come Dancing''. In 2016 he appeared in series 14 of ''Strictly Come Dancing''. ...
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American Smooth
This is a list of dance terms that are not names of dances or types of dances. See List of dances and List of dance style categories for those. This glossary lists terms used in various types of ballroom partner dances, leaving out terms of highly evolved or specialized dance forms, such as ballet, tap dancing, and square dancing, which have their own elaborate terminology. See also: * Glossary of ballet terms * Glossary of dance moves Abbreviations *3T – Three Ts *CBL – Cross-body lead *CBM – Contra body movement *CBMP – Contra body movement position *COG – Center of gravity *CPB – Center point of balance *CPP – Counter promenade position *DC – Diagonally to center *DW – Diagonally to wall *IDSF – International DanceSport Federation *IDTA – International Dance Teachers Association *ISTD – Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing *J&J – Jack and Jill *LOD – Line of dance *MPM – Measures per minute *NFR – No fo ...
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Pasquale La Rocca
Pasquale La Rocca (; born 24 June 1989) is an Italian dancer and choreographer. Best known as former Italian Ballroom and Latin Champion, La Rocca joined the second series of the Belgian version of ''Dancing with the Stars'' and successively participated in the Irish version of the show and most recently the Italian version, '' Ballando con le Stelle'', which he won for two consecutive years. Early life La Rocca was born in Naples, Italy. He has been dancing since the age of nine. Amateur dancing career La Rocca began his amateur dancing career in 2003 partnered with fellow Italian dancer, Concetta Picascia. Their best result was a top three finish in the Italian National 10 Dance Championships. Between 2005 and 2006, La Rocca partnered Vincenza Napolitano. Together they earned first places in TeamMatch della Danza in San Bendetto and MasterDanzOpen in Pescara. Between late 2006 and late 2007, La Rocca partnered Marika Fondi. Together they earned many first places, most no ...
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Lottie Ryan
Lottie Ryan (born 15 October 1985) is an Irish television and radio presenter with RTÉ, Ireland's public service radio and television broadcaster. She is a daughter of the broadcaster Gerry Ryan, and shared his agent, Noel Kelly, until she announced their separation shortly after his involvement in the RTÉ secret payment scandal was made public. She studied media and television in college for five years before moving to New York City where she worked for CBS on '' The Good Wife''. Several radio stations, including Radio Nova 100FM, have requested her to go on air as a DJ. She does the entertainment on RTÉ 2fm across weekdays and presented the national breakfast show '' Breakfast Republic'' in 2018 and 2019. Ryan won the fourth season of the Irish edition of ''Dancing with the Stars'' in 2020. She is a "brand ambassador" for Toyota is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, ...
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Sinéad O'Carroll
Sinéad Maria O'Carroll (born 14 May 1973) is an Irish singer and businesswoman. She is best known for being a member of the girl group B*Witched. Career 1998–2002: B*Witched In 1998, Edele Lynch formed the girl group Butterfly Farm with her twin sister Keavy Lynch and O'Carroll. The trio, who later changed their name to B*Witched, began writing and recording together, but soon realised that there was "someone missing". Upon Keavy's suggestion, they asked Lindsay Armaou to come for an audition and she played a tape recording of a song she had written. The other girls liked it and Lindsay became the fourth member of the band. Although the official B*Witched website gave Sinéad's year of birth as 1978, she later admitted that this was a lie. She was not the only member of the group to lie about her age, however; when the group started out, Lindsay claimed to be 17, despite actually being 19. B*Witched enjoyed huge success worldwide, becoming the first girl group in histor ...
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B*Witched
B*Witched are an Irish girl group consisting of twin sisters Edele and Keavy Lynch, Lindsay Armaou and Sinéad O'Carroll. Originally active between 1997 and 2002, they enjoyed success in both Europe and North America between 1998 and 2002, releasing two albums and eight singles, all of which made the UK Top 20. Their first four singles, " C'est la Vie", " Rollercoaster", " To You I Belong" and " Blame It on the Weatherman", all reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and the group has sold over 3 million albums worldwide. On 18 October 2012, it was announced that B*Witched would reunite for the ITV2 reality-documentary series '' The Big Reunion'' in 2013, along with other pop groups of their time. Due to the success, they officially returned. In May 2013, B*Witched unveiled a new song called "Love and Money" which served as the group's lead single from their 2014 EP, '' Champagne or Guinness''. In 2023, B*Witched released the single "Birthday" to celebrate their 25th a ...
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Eilish O'Carroll
Eilish O'Carroll (born 5 November 1952) is an Irish actress, writer, comedian and cast-member of the popular BBC sitcom, '' Mrs. Brown's Boys'', where she plays the title character's best friend and neighbour, Winnie McGoogan. She also played Dr Flynn in the stage version of the show. Eilish is the sister of ''Mrs. Brown's Boys'' star and creator, Brendan O'Carroll. Career O'Carroll has been a cast member of '' Mrs. Brown's Boys'' since its incarnation. Eilish played the role of Winnie McGoogan since the show's debut in 2011. She reprised her role in the 2014 film '' Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie'' and the 2017 chat show '' All Round to Mrs. Brown's''. In 2013, O'Carroll wrote and starred in an autobiographical one-woman stage show entitled 'Live Love Laugh'. She debuted the show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, for which she received positive reviews. She subsequently toured Live Love Laugh throughout the UK and Ireland up until 2018. It was announced that O'Carroll would be a ...
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Karen Byrne
Karen Byrne (born 30 May 1992) is an Irish dancer and choreographer. She is known as being a judge and, previously, a professional dancer on the Irish version of Dancing with the Stars. Early life Byrne was born in Ballyfermot in Dublin. She has been dancing since the age of six. ''Dancing with the Stars'' In 2017, Byrne was announced as one of the professional dancers for the first series of ''Dancing with the Stars''. She was partnered with RTÉ (; ; RTÉThe É in RTÉ is pronounced as an English E () and not an Irish É ()) is an Irish public service broadcaster. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, ... broadcaster, Des Cahill. Despite being in the bottom half of the leader board throughout the entire competition, they reached the quarterfinals of the competition eventually finishing in 5th place. In 2018, Byrne was partnered with singer-songwriter, Jake Carter. On 25 March 20 ...
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Jake Carter (singer)
Jacob Carter (born 11 August 1998) is a singer and the winner of series 2 of the Irish television dance competition ''Dancing with the Stars''. He is the younger brother of country music singer Nathan Carter. Career In 2017, Carter burst on to the Irish music scene after a performance on '' The Late Late Show'' with Ryan Tubridy, performing his first single, "Trouble". The single accompanied with a music video received a lot of air play on Irish country music radio stations and reached number one on the Irish Country Music iTunes chart. He followed up "Trouble" with an EP titled ''Three Things''. Jake has starred in a number of stage productions over the years including pantomimes at the SSE Arena, Belfast, The Olympia Theatre, Dublin and The National Stadium Dublin. He has also toured in the hit comedy play Dirty Dusting in 2023 alongside ''X Factor'' contestant Mary Byrne Appearances ''Aladdin'' In December 2017, Carter appeared as the title character Aladdin in th ...
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Conor McGregor
Conor Anthony McGregor (born 14 July 1988) is an Irish professional mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist. He is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) UFC Featherweight Championship, Featherweight and UFC Lightweight Championship, Lightweight Champion, becoming the first UFC fighter to hold List of UFC champions#Men's championship history, UFC championships in two weight classes simultaneously. He is also a former simultaneous Cage Warriors, Cage Warriors Fighting Championship (CWFC) Featherweight and Lightweight Champion. In 2008, McGregor began competing professionally in mixed martial arts (MMA), fighting in the lightweight and featherweight divisions. He won the CWFC Featherweight and Lightweight Championships in 2012 before signing with the UFC in 2013. After five consecutive wins, he won the Interim championship, Interim Featherweight Championship by defeating Chad Mendes at UFC 189. He became the undisputed Featherweight Champion at UFC 194 after knocking out ...
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Aidan O'Mahony
Aidan O'Mahony (born 8 June 1980, in Tralee) is a retired Irish Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Kerry county team. He has 5 All-Irelands, 3 NFLs, 10 Munster Championships, 1 County Senior Championship, 1 Senior Club County Championship, 1 County U21 Championship, 1 County Intermediate Championship and 2 All Stars. A Garda Síochána member, he played for Kerry's U21 team in 2000 and 2001. He debuted for the Kerry senior team in the 2003 League campaign and in the Championship versus Clare in 2004. He started the 2004 All-Ireland Final against Mayo, which Kerry won. He repeated the performance in the 2006 All-Ireland Final against the same team. Kerry dominated, and Mayo were easily defeated by a score of 4-15 to 3-05, and O'Mahony picked up the RTÉ Man of the Match Award for scoring 2 points and marking Ciarán McDonald. He won further All-Ireland medals in 2006 and 2007, gaining an All Star in each of those years. He has 2 NFL medals from 2004 and ...
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