Melanie moves closer to X Factor live final dream

DUBLINER Melanie McCabe feels like she won the All–Ireland after moving closer to being in the live finals of the X Factor.

The 18-year-old was one of the eight girls to make it through boot camp and to be selected to go to the judges’ houses — in her case judge Kelly Rowland in Florida.

“I was so, so nervous. I would have been gutted not to make it any further,” she said after last night’s show.