Happy feet counter Covid-19 blues

A new video featuring multi-award winning dancer Siobhán Phelan from Nenagh is becoming something of an online sensation. Siobhán and six-time world dance champion David Geaney (from Dingle and whose grandfather came from Nenagh) recently decided to inject a bit of cheer into the lockdown blues by recording separate videos of their rapidly tap-dancing feet. Their synchronised duet was picked up on by a number of online media outlets and has attracted over 200,000 views on David's Facebook page.
Making the video was a welcome distraction for Siobhán (18), who was about to audition for Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance show when the pandemic hit. Daughter of Regan and Sinéad Phelan, Ciamaltha Meadows, Siobhán is herself a world champion, winning the World Irish Dancing Championships (11-12 age category) in London in 2014. A pupil at St Mary's Convent Primary School and attending the local Flynn O'Kane Academy of Dance at the time, she became the first Nenagh dancer to bring home a world title since Bernadette Flynn did in 1996.
Now tapping with the Lorraine Duggan Irish Dance Academy in Cork, Siobhán also has Munster, Leinster, European and US trophies to her credit. But she doesn't keep any of them on show, and is reportedly quite humble about everything she has achieved. She just loves to dance! Siobhán's family don't really know why she took up dancing, though her grandmother on her mother's side - a Connemara native - was a set dancer.
Very much following in the footsteps of her Nenagh instructor Bernadette, Siobhán has  performed with the Riverdance troupe at the Gaiety Theatre. The Sixth Year Nenagh College student had recently put in a series of performances in Germany and she still has her sights set on Lord of the Dance. 
She was delighted to have been asked by David Geaney to make the video, which you can watch on Facebook and YouTube.