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Television: ‘I kind of feel numb right now. It’s a memory I won’t forget’, says Katja Mia on exit from show
Dancing with the Stars: ‘I’m a mum and my children really need me,’ says Rosanna Davison as she is voted off show
Television Review: “Oh the mum guilt, it gets ya!” quips host Jennifer Zamparelli as former Miss World is latest celebrity to be eliminated from Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars: Bad news for Eileen Dunne as she loses out to Rosanna Davison
Television: Former RTÉ news reader says she ‘enjoyed every moment’ on the show
Dancing with the Stars: Rosanna Davison is high on emotion as Davy Russell tops the public vote
Television: Blu Hydrangea has what it takes to win after excelling with a Paso Doble to RuPaul’s Sissy That Walk during Dedicated Dance Week
Dancing with the Stars: Fair City actor Shane Quigley Murphy voted off as show takes sour turn over online abuse of Katja Mia
Television review: Dancing with the Stars takes a sour turn as Virgin Media presenter Katja Mia reveals she was subjected to online abuse
Dancing with the Stars: ‘It’s devastating’ – public votes tearful TikTok star Miriam Mullins off the show
Television: Dancing with the Stars often takes its time to achieve lift-off. Four weeks in, this season is at last coming together
Dancing with the Stars: No pretty-in-pink ending for Rory Cowan as he’s first to be eliminated on stormy night
Rory Cowan is the obvious candidate for an early exit, but he’s pushed all the way by jockey Davy Russell
Dancing with the Stars: wilting chemistry between Jennifer Zamparelli and Doireann Garrihy a cause for concern
Television: Davy Russell disaster follows pro-dancers falling ill on week two of DWTS 2024
Dancing with the Stars: The show returns to kick off the new year in whizz-bang fashion
Television: There’s an early front-runner and some stumbles in the enjoyable season opener that is full of the traditional sweat and spice
Dancing with the Stars 2024: Who are the contestants, when is it on and more
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Dancing with the Stars 2023: 2FM’s Carl Mullan wins in one of the biggest shocks in show’s history
The 2FM personality comes out on top ahead of bookies’ favourite Brooke Scullion and early frontrunners Suzanne Jackson and Damian McGinty
Dancing with the Stars 2022: Everything you need to know
A new season has yet to be green-lit. The judges, though, are keen to return
Dancing With The Stars: Nina Carberry is well placed to gallop home in first place
Semi-finals review: The jockey faces Ellen Keane, Erica Cody and Jordan Conroy in the final
Dancing With the Stars week 2: Erica-Cody and Jordan Conroy wow the judges
Evening pivots from torture to scorcher as sound glitches followed by sizzling entrance
Dancing with the Stars returns to RTÉ, meaner and leaner than BBC’s Strictly
TV review: Jockey Nina Carberry’s natural athleticism carries the day in Episode 1
‘Things got weird’: How Dancing with the Stars coped with coronavirus
Let’s hope in 12 months all we have to fret about are dancing priests and Nicky Byrne’s quiff
Dancing with the Stars: Mary Kennedy eliminated in knuckle-whitening conclusion
As quarter-finals loom, this is turning into the Hunger Games with bonus face glitter
Dancing With The Stars backstage: ‘I’d love to see Danny Healy Rae out there’
Patrick Freyne visits the set of ‘the biggest show on Irish telly’
Dancing with the Stars has hit Father Ted levels of farce
Fr Ray Kelly’s protective halo means frontrunner Sinéad O’Carroll is put through the wringer
Dancing with the Stars: Glenda Gilson sinks like Titanic
Somehow, against all logic, Fr Ray Kelly stays afloat. He can’t survive much longer
Dancing With The Stars 2019: Jennifer Zamparelli and Nicky Byrne’s zero chemistry a turn-off
It’s a winning formula and brings in viewers in their thousands but not all is right on the dance floor
Mairéad Ronan is this year's winner of Dancing with the Stars
TV presenter’s sheer likability sees off actor Johnny Ward and country singer Cliona Hagan
Dancing with the Stars: ‘Nah nah’ from judges leaves 18-year-old Demi Isaac Oviawe in tears
Cliona Hagan channels Garth Brooks with a line-dancing cha cha to take top spot
Dancing with the Stars: Marty Morrissey is a national treasure but he ain’t no dancer
The Marty Party comes crashing down as judges send RTÉ GAA commentator home
Dancing With The Stars: 'The plastic surgery around here is fantastic'
Behind the scenes of the RTÉ hit show, from the nervy celebs to the team that delivers the slick production
Dancing with the Stars: Marty Morrissey’s erotic energy is frightening
Patrick Freyne: This is where the experiment in democratic self-governance has led
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Some sparkle, but plenty of padding in Irish version of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’
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