McConomy School

The McConomy school has recently divided into two branches, so we dedicated a few tweets to these amazing teachers...

- At the age of just 12, Brogan McKay has won 9 major titles including the Worlds, and has also won the Ulsters 3 times consecutively.

- The McConomy school is joint 7th on the all-time list of aolo World Champion-producing schools, with 18 titles. They are tied with Matthews, which is now closed, and Oirialla, which merged with Leonard to form the Ard-Rialla school (now Ard-Rialla-O'Donoghue).

- Their first World Champion was Joanne Kavanagh in 1997. Elizabeth's daughter Tara also won her first title later in the week. Joanne won 3 titles in all, as has Cyra Taylor. Rosetta's daughter Elan won 4 - the most a dancer from the school has won.

- 1 of McConomy's 18 titles went to a boy - Aidan McGinley, who won u21 in 2008. With 17 female World titles the school is 3rd in the girl's all-time league.

- The daughters of both McConomy sisters won World titles and are now TCRGs (Tara McConomy-Hegarty is an ADCRG). She won u21 in 1997, while cousin Elan McConomy-Bradley won four in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2003.

100 club

The 100th female to win a solo World Championship was Deborah Whelan, Aaron Crosbie School. She won u14 girls in 2002.

The 100th male was Dermot Cullen, Margaret O'Loughlin School. He won senior mens in 2005, then again in 2007, and is now a TCRG.

There have been 150 female World Champions to date, with the most recent being Emily Penner (Butler-Fearon-O'Connor), Brogan McKay (McConomy) and Keeva Corry (Croghan-Greene).

There have been 134 male World Champions, with the most recent being Morgan Comer (Doherty), Jan Gaca (Ceim Oir) and Cathal Keaney (Hession).