Donnelly School of Irish Dancing

🌍✨ MARIE ✨🌍

This absolute star returned home with a personal best, achieving three world medals in an incredible U12 competition featuring over 140 dancers 😍👏🏻

🏅 5th Place – Solo Slip Jig
🏅 7th Place – Solo Heavy Jig

🌟 28th Place – U12 Championship

I am so proud of your fantastic achievement and how beautiful you danced on the world stage 😍

It’s time for Killarney 🤩

Wishing our Marie the very best of luck at this year’s World Championships 🩵

We are incredibly proud of you and all the hard work and dedication you’ve put in. Now it’s your time to shine on the big stage 👯‍♀️

Everyone at The Donnelly School is behind you every step of the way 🥰

☘️ Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️
Wishing everyone a wonderful day of celebrating 👯
Indie Rae, Ivie, Skyla Rose and Elise started the day with some beautiful dancing at mass in Holy Trinity Church Cookstown 🩵

🩵 South Belfast Championships 🩵

What a superb day for Marie, debuting her beautiful new solo costume 😍 Wishing her the very best of luck dancing in it!

🏆 1st Place – Confined Reel U12
🏅 6th Place – Open Championship U12

A huge congratulations as well to Ivie, who danced her socks off and won the P/O Treble Reel U9 🥇 — her very first time dancing it at a feis 🤩👏🏻

Finishing off 2025 🩵🥰
A fabulous year with all of our dancers, excited for what 2026 has in store 👯

🩵 Ulster Championships – Day 4 🩵

Our Under 11 4-Hand Reel dancers rounded off our week at the Ulsters performing beautifully on stage, and securing an incredible 9th place out of 51 teams! 👏🏻

A huge congratulations to all our dancers who have competed throughout the week — you’ve each represented the school brilliantly and should be so proud of yourselves! 🥰💙

🩵 Ulster Championships – Day 3 🩵

Our Under 11 Championship girls were absolutely amazing this morning in a very talented age group – I couldn’t be prouder! 🥰

Marie achieved a personal best, receiving all three recalls, placing 2nd in the Reel, 6th in the Heavy Jig, and finishing an impressive 14th overall in the Championship 🙌🏻
A fantastic milestone – our school’s first ever Ulster Championship placing! 🩵

Lucy placed 3rd in the Reel, a huge achievement in her first year competing at Open Championship level 👏🏻

Emma delivered two beautiful rounds and should be so proud of the incredible progress she’s made this year!

A bright future ahead for these three stars ✨

🩵 Ulster Championships Day 1 & 2 🩵

What an incredible start to the Ulster Championships 2025 for our school! Our U8, U9, U10 & U13 prelim dancers all performed two beautiful rounds — I couldn’t be prouder 🥰

A huge congratulations to our dancers who achieved their very first Ulster medals — your hard work and dedication have truly paid off! 🌟

U8
🏅 Skyla Rose – 7th Light Jig
🏅 Lucy – 9th Light Jig
🏅 Ivie – 11th Reel

U9
🏅 Elise – 12th Light Jig

U13
🏅 Anna Rose – 9th Reel

And a special mention to Isabella, who danced absolutely beautifully — although no medals this time, her performance and spirit made me so proud 💙

Well done to everyone 💪🩵

🩵 Ready for The Ulster Championships 2025 🩵
Wishing my girls and everyone dancing at the Ulster Championships this week the best of luck 👯‍♀️
I can’t wait to see you all shine on the big stage!

Some brilliant results at Feis’ recently- Féile Bogside & Esther Treanor Memorial Feis 🩵

Massive well done to Áine who danced at her first open feis and placed 4th in the Beg A Cup Dance 🏆👯‍♀️

🥇Skyla Rose - 1st Place P/O Light Jig
🏆 Anna Rose - 1st Place P/O Cup
🏆 Niamh - 3rd Beg A Cup

🩵 Now Enrolling for September! 🩵
Irish Dancing Classes – Ages 3+
Whether for fun or competition, we have a class for everyone!
🔹Competitive & Non-Competitive Options
📅 Starting back next week ☺️

📍 Get in touch for more info!