Sunday 2 October 2011

And that wraps up the Nationals

Another amazingly successful competition, with emotional highs and lows, fantastic dancing, amazing musicians and - best of all - it ran on-time or early every day!

We have seen the introduction of IDTV and hopefully it will continue and grow over time, we have experienced the wonderful warmth and friendship of QLD and dancers from all over Australia.

LiveCommentary and LiveCam could not be done by an individual, it was made with the assistance of:
  • PRODUCER: Conor Ayres
  • PRESENTERS: Sinead Watkins, Brianna Travers, Niamh Champion, Bianca Nicholls and Jacqui Schweive
  • LIVECOMMENTATOR AND MARKSMITH: Aisling O'Brien
  • PHOTOGRAPHER-IN-TRAINING: Theapatra Ross
And to AIDA Australia, without who's support (and permission!) this production would not be possible, many thanks and my deepest gratitude.

Presentation photos, Dance of Champions and Ceili photos will be online at some time, after we ceremoniously destroy the ChaosCentral production suite :)

Results - Ceili


Under 19 Girls 4 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 112 Team A Halloran : NSW
2 140 Team B Christine Ayres : VIC
3 108 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
4 103 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
5 122 Team A McAleer  : VIC
6 133 Team B Halloran : NSW
7 107 Team A Walton : NSW
8 106 Team A Howe : SA
9 126 Team B McAleer  : VIC
10 127 Team A Miller : SA
11 134 Team A Scoil Rince  Kilmurray : VIC
12 116 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
12 139 Team A Walker School : QLD
14 136 Team A Currie-Henderson : NSW
15 132 Team A Crocker : QLD
16 113 Team B Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
17 102 Team A Kick Dance Studio : QLD
18 129 Team A Aisling : NSW
19 111 Team D Cosgriff : VIC
20 120 Team A Scoil  Ni Ceide/ Upton : WA

Open Age Girls 4 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 142 Team A McAleer  : VIC
2 110 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
3 144 Team A Scoil Rince  Kilmurray : VIC
4 145 Team A Halloran : NSW
5 101 Team A Kavanagh : WA
6 133 Team A Cosgriff : VIC
7 119 Team B Christine Ayres : VIC
8 140 Team A Bilton : VIC
9 141 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
10 130 Team B Maher : NSW
11 108 Team A Maher : NSW
12 106 Team A Scoil  Ni Ceide/ Upton : WA
12 134 Team A Lynagh : QLD
14 147 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
15 104 Team A Howe : SA
16 129 Team A Watkins : QLD
17 114 Team A Liz Gregory : ACT
18 137 Team B McAleer  : VIC
19 107 Team A Miller : SA
20 135 Team B Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
21 148 Team B Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
22 127 Team A Trinity Studio : WA
23 132 Team A Scoil Rince Ni Murchu : SA
24 136 Team A Walker School : QLD

Open Age Mixed 4 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 122 Team A Simpson : ACT
2 109 Team A Dwyer-Whelan : NSW
3 104 Team A Walton : NSW
4 103 Team A Halloran : NSW
5 117 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
6 118 Team A Scoil Rnce Ni Murchu : SA
7 124 Team A Aisling : NSW
8 111 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
8 121 Team B Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
10 119 Team B Dwyer-Whelan : NSW
11 125 Team A Cosgriff : VIC
12 114 Team A Liz Gregory : ACT
13 120 Team A QIA Dancers : QLD

Under 19 Girls 8 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 110 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
2 111 Team A Scoil Rince  Kilmurray : VIC
3 108 Team A Cosgriff : VIC
4 109 Team A Halloran : NSW
5 104 Team B Cosgriff : VIC
6 107 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC

Open Age Girls 8 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 112 Team B Christine Ayres : VIC
2 104 Team A Halloran : NSW
3 116 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
4 117 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
5 123 Team A Miller : SA
6 124 Team A Simpson : ACT
7 127 Team A Howe : SA
8 126 Team A McAleer  : VIC
9 105 Team A Walton : NSW
10 128 Team A Scoil Rince  Kilmurray : VIC
11 115 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
12 111 Team A Watkins : QLD
13 122 Team A Adelaide Academy : SA
14 125 Team A Maher : NSW

Open Age Mixed 8 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 111 Team A Simpson : ACT
2 101 Team A Dwyer-Whelan : NSW
3 114 Team A Halloran : NSW
4 106 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
5 112 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
6 113 Team A Walton : NSW
7 102 Team A Aisling : NSW
8 103 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
9 104 Team A Cosgriff : VIC

Senior Figure
Place No Team Studio Name

1 102 Team A Simpson : ACT
2 103 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
3 109 Team A Watkins : QLD
4 107 Team A Cosgriff : VIC
5 106 Team A Currie-Henderson : NSW
6 104 Team A Adelaide Academy : SA
7 108 Team A O’Connor : VIC
8 105 Team A Bilton : VIC
9 110 Team A McMahon : NSW
Full Results to follow shortly
Senior Figure Champions 2011 Simpson ACT! 
Open Age Mixed 8 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Simpson ACT!
Open Age Girls 8 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Christine Ayres VIC! 
Under 19 Girls 8 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Scoil Ard Rince QLD! 
Open Age Mixed 4 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Simpson, ACT!
Open Age Girls 4 Hand Champions 2011 McAleer VIC!
Under 19 Girls 4 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Halloran NSW!

Dancing is complete!

The dancing for the 2011 Australian National Irish Dancing Championships has now finished. Results will commence shortly.

Feis Update

3 figures left!

The Senior Figures are now on stage!!!!

Team 101 has withdrawn... so we will be commencing the Senior figure section with team 102.  Awaiting the adjudicators taking their seats - the panel for this section will be all six of our judges.

Feis Update

All the Open Age 8 Hand teams are complete, and now we are continuing with the Senior Figures. The Senior Figure is the last event for this years nationals!
Two teams remaining in the mixed eight hands... then onto the figures!

More feis faces




And the Open Mixed teams continue…...
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Open Age Mixed 8 Hand Ceili about to start

Then the Senior Figure, followed by presentations and then the Ceili :)

Guess where?




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More teams, some mixed up!










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Open Age teams in marshalling












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More teams are dancing






And more feis faces are photographed
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And the Open Age 8 Hand are off and running

After a light lunch and a walk around, ChaosCentral's mind has returned to the Ceili dancing that is happening right now!!  Very spirited playing from the musicians is assisting the teams in performing their best!

Feis faces...





Or in this case, match the injury to the face…..





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