Celebrity Jigs ’n’ Reels winner steps into Riverdance lead role

THE winner of the Celebrity Jigs ’n’ Reels television show is fulfilling her dream by taking to the stage as the lead role in Riverdance.

Nicola Byrne, who won the reality television Irish dancing competition with Fair City star Killian O’Sullivan earlier this year, is taking the lead role in the stage extravaganza for the first time during its run in the Gleneagle Hotel INEC venue in Killarney, Co Kerry.

The 26-year-old from Dublin’s Blanchardstown, who took up Irish dancing at aged four, said: “It is most dancers’ dream to be a lead. I just joined, happy to dance in Riverdance, I was delighted to be asked.”