Welcome to the Friends of McGahan Lees Irish Dance Academy website.
This site is intended for Irish dancers all over the world -- from pre-feis beginners to world championship contenders. Family and friends of dancers, and anyone thinking of starting Irish dancing lessons, should also find it of great interest -- especially the beginners area. Have a good look round!
Please note that this site is maintained by dancers' parents - NOT a qualified dance teacher (click 'read me!' on the top menu bar for more details).
Our 2010 Syllabus is now available, and we are emailing it to teachers at the moment, region by region. For more information, see our Open Feis 2010 page.
We are receiving a number of membership requests that are obviously from people who have nothing to do with Irish dancing, and we are just as obviously rejecting these. However, the only way we can judge whether these requests are genuine or not is by looking at the chosen username and the email address supplied.
A bunch of McGahan Lees dancers met up on Saturday for a brilliant day letting off steam at Thorpe Park. We're still waiting for pictures of everyone who went, but this crazy bunch is probably representative.
CLICK THE PICTURE!
We now have our new photo gallery up and running -- see the link beneath the banner heading, above.
We've sorted out a few of the photographs from the old site, but we really need good, new pictures of McGL dancers -- any age, any grade -- so if anyone has any to send us, please email them.
A small reminder -- wherever you see a photograph on the site, clicking it will usually bring up a larger version.
We love this pic of two pairs of sisters at the North American Irish Dance Championships. Click the 'Read More' link to find out who they are, and click the picture to see a larger version!
Regular visitors will know that this website has been out of action for two months following a serious attack by hackers. Our apologies that it has taken a long time to go live again, but we needed to be sure that our younger visitors were not going to find themselves being redirected to an inappropriate site from a hacked page.
Now that we are up and running, we will gradually add all of our content back - but we are taking this opportunity to update and rewrite where appropriate. The look and feel of the site will also evolve over time, so watch this space!