Dancing With the Stars - Ireland

Ryaner179

Good series last year was better in my opinion but still miles and miles ahead of the first series Hope its back next year

Orchids

It's a joke, the weakest dancer won, she used to be grand, but she turned into a pain, everytime shes interviewed she's talking about mum shaming, being over 35 and invisible... youd think no one ever had a child before her

brooke 2

inthehat wrote: »

Thrilled for John

Yes, am very happy for John. Seems like a really nice guy. Made it to the final last year also, with Deirdre O'Kane. Delighted for little Darragh.

Charles Ingles

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Mairead was marked out to win from a long way out.

Oh yes she anointed by the rte bosses before anybody danced.
Must be a woman
I think it's great women have been oppressed for too long

freshpopcorn

Ryaner179 wrote: »

Good series last year was better in my opinion but still miles and miles ahead of the first series Hope its back next year

I think they said it was back!

homerjay2005

Charles Ingles wrote: »

Woman = check
Rte insider = check

Mission complete

is johnny an RTE insider too?

Clelia fits both?


talk about paranoia. when o Mahoney won it, it was because of garda and gaa people complained. now its fixed because she works for RTE and isnt a male....

ffs.

brooke 2

One More Toy wrote: »

Johnny should have won

I agree.

pjohnson

Ryaner179 wrote: »

Good series last year was better in my opinion but still miles and miles ahead of the first series Hope its back next year

Nicky said see ye next year. It'll prob be confirmed on the DWTSIrl twitter later. It was confirmed very quick post final last year.

Fifty grades of shay.

Orchids wrote: »

It's a joke, the weakest dancer won, she used to be grand, but she turned into a pain, everytime shes interviewed she's talking about mum shaming, being over 35 and invisible... youd think no one ever had a child before her

But what has that to do with weakening her dancing?
I thought she deserved it tonight and was the best dancer tonight, not necessarily every night, but I voted for her tonight based on tonight.

Charles Ingles

homerjay2005 wrote: »

is johnny an RTE insider too?

Clelia fits both?


talk about paranoia. when o Mahoney won it, it was because of garda and gaa people complained. now its fixed because she works for RTE and isnt a male....

ffs.

I concur

brooke 2

kazamo wrote: »

Watch RTE milk this to high heaven

It will be painful for the next week.

Fifty grades of shay.

brooke 2 wrote: »

It will be painful for the next week.

Not for me, cos I watch or listen to damn all RTE.

Orchids

Fifty grades of shay. wrote: »

But what has that to do with weakening her dancing?
I thought she deserved it tonight and was the best dancer tonight, not necessarily every night, but I voted for her tonight based on tonight.

The comments didn't weaken her dance but she was certainly the weakest finalist. Public vote is a popularity contest, little to do with dancing, look at Aidan o'Mahoney the first year.
If it was up to the judges she wouldn't have won it.
Her constantly going on & on about 'just being a mom' obviously appealed to the public

Charles Ingles

Never knew she had kids until Tonight she kept that quiet ...

Fifty grades of shay.

Orchids wrote: »

The comments didn't weaken her dance but she was certainly the weakest finalist. Public vote is a popularity contest, little to do with dancing, look at Aidan o'Mahoney the first year.
If it was up to the judges she wouldn't have won it.
Her constantly going on & on about 'just being a mom' obviously appealed to the public

I may have misinterpreted or been mistaken, but did she not top the judges scores tonight?

freshpopcorn

I'm very happy it's over this weekend. Once the evenings get bright I find it a bit of a drag to sit in and watch it.

Fifty grades of shay.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I'm very happy it's over this weekend. Once the evenings get bright I find it a bit of a drag to sit in and watch it.

I can't believe it's 12 weeks since it started, these 3 months have flown by.

brooke 2

Fifty grades of shay. wrote: »

I can't believe it's 12 weeks since it started, these 3 months have flown by.

Even though I'm not too impressed with the result, I have really enjoyed DWTS every week. Will miss it!

Pussyhands

I see headlines that Mareid Farrell won it. Such a pity. Crocodile tears about how women turn invisible over 35. I wonder what she was actually on about when she went on about that rubbish?

screamer

In my cynical head I’m just waiting for the Mairead Farrell Ronan show to be announced, buoyed on by this win.

FWIW Women over 35 with kids aren’t invisible our priorities just change, and that is our choice, it’s not foisted upon us....

Heroditas

Enjoyable final.
My thoughts on the dances:
Mairead: I didn't like the Charleston first time out and still didn't like it again tonight. Didn't deserve such a high mark. Also wasn't mad on her second dance but hey...
Her showdance was classic John and dare I say it, he went a bit Brendan Cole for it.

Johnny: they really improved the Foxtrot and their jive was also very good. The showdance was absolutely nuts.

Cliona: they really had her doing two awful dances. Her barn dance from week 1 was vastly overmarked. They were out of sync a lot! They then recreated her hooker dance which was supposed to be a rumba.
Showdance - meh... exactly what we expected Robert to do. What an appalling choreographer.

Well done to Mairead.

Westlife were crap. Their song sounded like a rip off of another recent song. Dire.

Hopefully they announce a 4th series.

368100

Bye bye Fitali....see you next year :-(

donkeykong5

Seems one of the pro dancers was giving phone credits to people to vote. Very sad. Hopefully the amazing sun news paper picks up on it. !

screamer

screamer wrote: »

In my cynical head I’m just waiting for the Mairead Farrell Ronan show to be announced, buoyed on by this win.

FWIW Women over 35 with kids aren’t invisible our priorities just change, and that is our choice, it’s not foisted upon us....

And next year Kathryn Thomas will be on it , another female RTÉ luvvie who will win because she keeps bringing baby Ellie her training sessions and all the Irish mammies & grannies love her :P

Pussyhands

Johnny Ward is fake. He knew well he had to be likable to do well on the show and his acting skills were put to good use.

skearnsot

Hope they get 2 new presenters next year - zamparelli does me noggin in - she’s just not a natural presenter and she’s not funny

donkeykong5

skearnsot wrote: »

Hope they get 2 new presenters next year - zamparelli does me noggin in - she’s just not a natural presenter and she’s not funny

Shes brilliant.

donkeykong5

Deleted User wrote: »

screamer wrote: »

In my cynical head I’m just waiting for the Mairead Farrell Ronan show to be announced, buoyed on by this win.

FWIW Women over 35 with kids aren’t invisible our priorities just change, and that is our choice, it’s not foisted upon us....

And next year Kathryn Thomas will be on it , another female RTÉ luvvie who will win because she keeps bringing baby Ellie her training sessions and all the Irish mammies & grannies love her :P

Only one baby....I think you need at least 3 these days.

Heroditas

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Shes brilliant.

I thought she was good at first but regressed as the season went on. Bit too shouty but that can be coached out of her.

golfball37

JZ is 100 times better than the previous lady. Far more natural.
I didn’t watch the final as I knew last week the way the judges upped maireads scores, inexplicably imo, the heave was on to justify her winning it and her winning it was a fait accompli. Obviously she was getting good votes all along but as a dancer she was the third best of the 3 finalists all season imo. Disappointing but not surprising sadly