Among the thousands that gathered, one young woman from Drogheda – Sophie Reilly - laced up her dancing shoes, took a deep breath and prepared to etch her name into history.

Published: 10:13 EDT, 16 April 2025 | Updated: 05:54 EDT, 17 April 2025 Irish Dancing's most prestigious competition - the World Championships - kicked off in Dublin on Saturday.

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The other round is heavy shoe, which is a percussive style of Irish dance with loud, intricate rhythms. Dancers who place in the top half then do a third dance.

The collection, which was shown at the Newgen Presentation Space on Saturday 22 February, featured a riff on traditional Irish dancing shoes, statement leather cloaks and sultry harness detailing.

The Rinceoirí Ceolmhar Irish Dancing School will not only be competing at the event in Dublin but also have two of their dancers – Niamh Breen and Sofia Bradley – competing in the solo dance events.

Eamon Fay has been making Irish dancing shoes for more than 40 years. He counts the Riverdance and Lord of the Dance troupes among his customers, as well as the thousands of young children who ...

Clog dancing involves heavy steps which keep time (clog is Gaelic for ‘time’), and striking one shoe with the other, creating rhythms and sounds to imitate those made by the milling machinery. During ...

The rhythm of Irish dancing captivated Meagan Urbanek. So much so, she decided to tape up her own shoes and give it a go, starting when she was five years old after a family trip to the Cape Coral ...

McFayden & Peake’s General Store flying the Irish flag in Naracoorte, South Australia, around 1869. Performing or watching Irish dance was a way of sticking together and celebrating Irishness.

Niamh has been teaching virtual Irish Dancing lessons to the students of Hands of Hope in Kampala, Uganda for the past year. “They are on to the heavy shoes now,” Niamh says with pride. “I can’t wait ...

Zachariah McLaughlin beat all but one of the dancers he competed against in Killarney last month, taking second place in the under-19 category of the An Chomhdhail World Irish Dance Championship.