Just returned from Toronto where she
became North American under 16 Irish
Dance Champion is Miss Roisin Keenan,
Enniskillen.
Roisin’s success is enhanced by the fact that she took the same title at under
15 last year in San Francisco.
This year’s competition was more intense, due to the cancellation of the World
Championships because of foot-and-mouth disease.
Nevertheless Roisin came out top of 119 dancers from all over the USA,
Canada and the British Isles.
During their Canadian trip the group met and were given great hospitality by
some people with Fermanagh connections. Mrs. Kathy Karapalidis (née
Henderson), originally from Enniskillen, whose daughter Kayla dances with
the Gregoire School and Martin Irvine (from Ederney), his wife Bridie and their
daughters Kathy (also a champion) and Sinead of the Butler-Fearon School.
A pupil of the Peake School, Roisin appreciates the dedication of her teacher,
Mrs. Rosaleen Peake, and the support given by the other Peake dancers and
their parents.
Roisin and a number of other local dancers have already qualified for the
World Championships in Glasgow in 2002, the first time ever for the event to
be held outside Ireland, but before that there will be the British Nationals in
Manchester and the Ulster Championships, just down the road in Bundoran
Just returned from Toronto where she
became North American under 16 Irish
Dance Champion is Miss Roisin Keenan,
Enniskillen.