Naomh Fionnbarra School of Irish Dancing

Registration is now open for all new dancers (boys and girls aged 4+) to participate at classes in Santry and Stoneybatter.

Please contact us for more information.

Registration is now open for new dancers looking to start Irish dancing. Please contact us for more information Wednesday 4th Sept 3pm in Santry, Thursday 5th Sept 4.30pm in Stoneybatter and Saturday mornings 10am in Santry.

That’s a wrap for this dancing year.. A fantastic year for all our dancers from the small feis’s to our Dublin Regional Championships, Americans Championships, Irish Open Championships and of course our World Open Championships. Congratulations to everyone on a successful year 🏆🥇🥈🥉🫶🏻

Wow..what a talented bunch of dancers and our very own Rachel Duggan in the middle of them all 🩷

Rest, recover and ready for the Worlds stage 🌎

Riverdanceathon 2024 💛💙

Last year our dancers took part in the Riverdance danceathon. A brilliant event held outside the Riverdance - Gaiety Theatre. This year we will do the same on 20th June, and all money raised will go to Childhood Cancer Ireland . You can donate here through the link on behalf of Naomh Fionnbarra School of Irish Dancing

Our timeslot is TBC but hopefully will be evening time to accomodate those in work/exams. Thank you in advance for any support.

https://www.idonate.ie/team/naomhfionnbarraschoolofirishdance

Weekend 1 (part 2):
Our Ullmhuchán and Meanghrád award dancers took to the stage ready to achieve their goals..and that’s exactly what they did. With so many sashes and placings our dancers where extremely happy 🏆 Congratulations to Seán, Sophia, Mia, Abbie, Anna, Ashling, Amelia, Ruby and Jasmine on fantastic results x

Weekend 1 (part 1) at the Irish Open Championships was a fantastic two days with our graded dancers, paiste teams and Drama (Mamma Mia) taking to the stage. It was the first time many of our dancers competed on the big stage and a special well done to our two U/6 dancers, Ailbhe and Freya who set the standard for the weekend. Great results from Robyn, Grace, Denisa, Éirinn and Clodagh. Our paiste 8hand was placed 5th in a huge championship and our foirne 6th place. Congratulations to our drama team winning 1st with Mamma Mia, a huge amount of work behind the scenes, we are so proud 🏆

Congratulations to our dancers who competed at the over the weekend. A special mention to IrelandRose who won the senior championship 🏆

⭐️Teams⭐️ Congratulations to all team dancers who participated in 8hands, foirnes, freestyles and dramas. So much work has gone into our team classes and it was great to see them on the big stage. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to the NF 💕

⭐️Sean O’Brien⭐️ Placed 5th in the boys Championship U/12 and our very first boy from NF to represent the class at this level in an Irish Open Championship.
Congratulations Sean we are so proud and look forward to more boys championships. Onwards and upwards

⭐️MyaRose Walsh⭐️ Placing 6th in the Championship U/13 what an achievement! Proving that practice makes progress and believing in yourself will make your dreams come true. We are so proud of your hard work behind the scenes and dedication to team NF

⭐️Ruby Doogan⭐️ Our youngest superstar to take to the stage placing 5th in the championship U/12. An extremely tough competition and you proved you deserve to be up there. We are so proud of your hard work behind the scenes and dedication to team NF.

Weekend 1 of our Irish Open Championships timetable. Wishing best of luck to all our grades dancing in awards, our paiste teams and Drama 🍀

Thank you for having some of our brilliant beginners do a little display at your spring fair! The sun shone and we had lots of little participants get involved to learn Irish Dance for the very first time. Some of our dancers performed for the very first time too, and we are so so proud of your improvements and achievements. For anyone in the and we have a Thursday beginners class at 4pm in Stoneybatter!

What a great two day feis at the Ní Alpín feis over the weekend in Tallaght. Our last feis before the Irish Open Championships and our dancers danced so well and got fantastic results..countdown is on!!

Thank you to the organisers 💕

Congratulations to our dancers who competed at the North Wicklow Open Championships last Saturday and Sunday. A special mention to our U/6 dancer Freya Caffrey winning her first trophy 🏆

Congratulations to all our dancers who participated on Saturday and Sunday. Well done on fantastic dancing and results and thank you to the organisers

Irish Opens Championships timetable/ Craobhacha Oscailte na hÉireann

Well done to Seán, MyaRose, Leah, Rebecca and Niamh who had a great day of dancing at the Roscommon Championship feis. Excellent results 🥳🎉💪

Well done to our dancers who competed at the Dublin Feile on Sunday. Thank you to the organisers for a great event.

Well done to Isobella, Ruby, Sean and Ruby who took part at the South Leinster Feile in Wexford. A special mention to our newest World Qualifier, Sean O’Brien 🌍🌎🌏

What a fantastic weekend in Glasgow at the Scottish Championships. Congratulations to all our dancers who competed and of course the great after party. Thank you to all Áine and Laura for organising McGuigan-Sayers School of Irish Dancing 🎉💕

Our timeslot for tomorrow is 7.30-8pm. We will meet at 7.15 sharp. Please come and support the class if you are in town ⭐️

Join us tomorrow outside, The Gaiety Theatre for our Riverdance - ‘Danceathon’ 2023. We are so excited to have incredible dance schools from all over the country performing throughout the day and two special performances from Riverdance at 10am and 1pm. Riverdance is proudly supporting Asiam.ie, Ireland’s National Autism Charity and all donations make a huge difference ✨🙌

Date: Thursday, 29th June
Location: Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Time: 10am-10pm

Visit the link:
https://www.idonate.ie/event/riverdanceathon2023inaidofasiam

Welcome our CRN Worlds Photographer
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That’s a wrap on the World Championships 2023. A fantastic few days in Killarney. Thank you for the huge support from our NF team including parets, grandparents, family and friends. It was amazing to watch all our dancers on the world stage whether it be in Teams, Freestlyes or Solo championship 🌎⭐️🌎⭐️🌎⭐️🌎⭐️🌎

Day 4 at the World Championships:
Well done to Niamh and Eleanor who danced a great three rounds progressing rapidly (watch these two in the future!).

Congratulations to IrelandRose placed 7th, Mary placed 11th and Rachel F who danced very well in an extremely competitive championship u/23. We are so proud of all the hard work the three have put in.

A massive congratulations to our super star Rachel Duggan placed 3rd in the championship O/23, a pleasure to watch and always shines like a true star on the World stage. A fantastic role model for all our dancers 🌎