Caroline, Fiona, Sinéad

If you're called Caroline, Fiona or Sinéad you've got a good chance of winning the Worlds. Well, not really but they are the most common names among female World Champions. So if you're looking for names for your baby girl, it couldn't hurt to give them one of these names - especially if you've got one of the most common World Champion surnames (coming soon).

The champions were/are...

Caroline O'Leary (O'Regan), Caroline Healy (Nightingale-McDonald and Turley), Caroline Greene (McLaughlin) and Caroline Gray (McGahan-Lees).

Fiona Sheridan (Turley), Fiona Gaye Snowden (Ransley), Fiona Harold (Oirialla) and Fiona Dargan (Rince na Tiarna).

Sinéad Fallon (Tracey Scanlon and Morgan), Sinéad McLaughlin (McLaughlin), Sinéad Ellis (Sean Eireann McMahon) and Sinéad Carson (Doherty).

Carolines won 9 titles between them, Fionas won 7 and Sinéads have won 8 so far.

Transfer champions...

Not including dancers whose schools have undergone slight changes (e.g. teaching leaving/joining):

Grainne Feely – Cullen/Cullen-O’Donoghue and Hynes

Caroline Healy – Nightingale-McDonald and Turley

Eimear Murphy – Inis Ealga and Cadwell-Cawte

Sinéad Fallon – Tracey Scanlon and Morgan

Therese Corless – Anthony Costello and Aaron Crosbie

Colin Dunne – Comerford and Turley

Kevin Nealon – McCaffrey and Kelly

Liam Harney – Greene and Plummer

Ronan McCutcheon – Setanta/McCutcheon and Caroline Greene

Fergal Keaney – O’Brien and Hession

Gerard Carson – Reid and Doherty

Sean Downes – Anthony Savage and McCutcheon

Congratulations to @mduckworth10 and @HelloCourtnaaay for correctly guessing Ronan, Sean and Therese. I didn't include Joe Bitter, because although he won titles for both the Doherty and Carey schools, John Carey was originally a teacher with Danny Doherty.

Fallon

In 2000 three World Champs were called Fallon (no relation?)

 

Sinead Fallon, Morgan = u17 girls

Anthony Fallon, Náomh Padraíg = u17 boys

Nicholas Fallon, King = u19 men