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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. Lurgan is about south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin railway line. It had a population of about 25,000 at the 2011 Census and is within the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon district. For some purposes, Lurgan is treated as part of the "Craigavon Urban Area" along with neighbouring Craigavon and Portadown. Lurgan is characteristic of many Plantation of Ulster settlements, with its straight, wide planned streets. It is the site of a number of historic listed buildings including Brownlow House and Lurgan Town Hall. Lurgan Park is the largest urban park in Northern Ireland. Historically the town was known as a major centre for the production of textiles (mainly linen) after the industrial revolution and it continued to be a major producer of textiles until that industry steadily declined in the late 20th century. The develop ...
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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 8 times British National, 8 times Dutch National, European and 4 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''. He was not ...
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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 foot rise *OP â ...
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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''. 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 finish top three 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 notably at TeamMatch della Danza at the 2006 San Benedetto Open and Supercoppa in Foligno the following year. Throughout 2008, La Rocca partnered Veronica D'asti. They had a ...
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Lottie Ryan
Lottie Ryan (born 15 October 1985) is an Irish television and radio presenter with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland's national radio and television station. She is a daughter of the broadcaster Gerry Ryan. 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 ''Breakfast Republic'' was the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ 2fm's breakfast radio show. It was presented by Keith Walsh and comedians Jennifer Zamparelli and Bernard O'Shea, from 6–10am weekdays. It first aired on 17 February 2014. Regul ...'' in 2018 and 2019. Ryan won the fourth season of the Irish edition of ''Dancing with the Stars'' in 2020. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryan, Lottie 1985 births Living ...
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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 history to ...
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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. In 2002, having sold over 3 million albums worldwide, B*Witched were dropped by their record company. Soon afterwards, when O'Carroll decided to leave, the group split up. In 2006, the Lynch sisters formed a group, Ms. Lynch, frequently performing B*Witched material at live shows. On 18 October 2012, it was announced that B*Witched would reunite for the ITV2 reality-documentary series ''The Big Reunion'', along with other pop groups of their time, including Liberty X, Five, Honeyz and Atomic Kitten. The show fol ...
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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 co ...
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Karen Byrne
Karen Byrne (born 30 May 1992) is an Irish dancer and choreographer. She is known as being one of the professional dancers 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 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 2018, Carter and Byrne were named the winners. In 2019, Byrne was partnered with TV presenter and style entrepreneur, Darren Kennedy. They reached the fifth week of the competition, finishing in ninth place. In 2020, Byrne partnered with Olympic gold medal-winning boxer, ...
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Jake Carter (singer)
Jake Carter (born Jacob Carter; 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''. Appearances ''Aladdin'' In December 2017, Carter appeared as the title character Aladdin in the Belfast SSE Arena pantomime production of ''Aladdin''. ''Dancing with the Stars'' In December 2017, Carter was confirmed as one of the eleven celebrities taking part in the second series of the Irish version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Carter was paired with Irish p ...
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Conor McGregor
Conor Anthony McGregor ( ga, Conchúr Antóin Mac Gréagóir; born 14 July 1988) is an Irish professional mixed martial artist. He is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight double-champion. He is the first UFC fighter to hold UFC championships in two weight classes simultaneously. He is also the former Cage Warriors featherweight and lightweight champion. In his debut professional boxing match, he was defeated by Floyd Mayweather Jr. He is the biggest pay-per-view (PPV) draw in MMA history, having headlined the five highest-selling UFC pay-per-view events. His bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 drew 2.4 million PPV buys, the most ever for an MMA event. His boxing match with Mayweather drew 4.3 million PPV buys in North America, the second most in combat sports history. McGregor was ranked as the world's highest-paid athlete by ''Forbes'' in 2021, earning a reported $180 million. He also featured in the list in 2018, when he was ran ...
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Aidan O'Mahony
Aidan O'Mahony (born 8 June 1980, in Tralee) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays 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 2005 and als ...
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