Congratulations to Scoil Ui Ruairc student Ronan O’Brien, under 10, who recently won both the North American Irish Dance Championships and the British Nationals Championships! Well done on a great achievement. Congrats also to Amy Hayes 7th U8 Girls and Gillian Hayes 9th U10 Girls at the British Nationals.
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Scoil Ui Ruairc at the Munster Fleadh!
The O’Rourke School of Irish dance have a busy of week of performances at the Munster Fleadh! Planxty O’Rourke will be performing on Wednesday evening, 17th July, in Theatre One, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, as part of the ‘Walls of Limerick’ Irish dance concert. On Friday evening, our students will perform with Mick Moloney and Friends at the University Concert Hall. On Sunday, at 6.15pm on the ‘Gig Rig’, Planxty O’Rourke will perform once more before they head off to Germany on Monday morning for a week long tour! We also wish good luck to our 4 hand who are competing at Fleadh na Mumhan 2013. A very busy week for our dance school – we thank our students’ parents for their time and co-operation and hope their children have a fantastic week!
Success at North American Nationals Irish Dance Championships!
Well done to Ronan O’Brien, U10 Boys Champion, and to Kelsey Schule, 18th in O20 Ladies, at the recent North American Irish Dance Championships in Anaheim, California!
Feis Magh Adhair 2013
Feis Magh Adhair 2013 will take place on Sunday 4th August in the University of Limerick Concert Hall as part of Féile Tailteann Nua. Click on Feis Magh Adhair on the menu bar for info on the feis and to download the full syllabus.
Irish Nationals 2013
Congrats to all our dancers on fantastic performances and results at the Irish Nationals!
U8 Amy Hayes 16th
U10 Gillian Hayes 21st
U13 Laura 20th in Priomh
U14 Courtney 2nd in Priomh
U15 Conor Hartnett 7th and World Qualifier!
U16 Laura Chesser 14th and World Qualifier!
U16 Shona Hughes 34th
U17 Megan O’Brien 30th
U19 Zoe Griffin 3rd and World Qualifier!
18-20 Men Dillon Stanley 3rd and World Qualifier!
O20 Kelsey Schule 8th and World Qualifier!
O20 Lucy Barry-Dawkins 25th.
Rachel and Christina who medalled in their two hand.
And last but not least to our senior ceili team who got 3rd! Great results guys.
See our photo gallery (click Gallery above) to see photos from the event.