My Childhood with Katelyn Cummins: Mam, Grandad and TikTok taught me how to jive

“I’ve always loved dancing, I spent eight or nine years Irish dancing as a child”

Laois Rose and current Rose of Tralee Katelyn Cummins

Katelyn Cummins was worried about moving back home after competing in and winning this year’s Dancing with the Stars. The 21-year-old Rose of Tralee had moved to Dublin while training for and filming the show and thought it might be difficult to adjust to living with her parents and younger brother and sister again.

“But I needn’t have worried,” she says. “I settled back in immediately.”