Irish dance in full flight reels in online views

A photo of an Irish dancer who stepped off a tour bus at Ladies View, Killarney, and broke into a spontaneous slip-jig has attracted over 22,000 hits on Facebook.

The picture of Shauna Rock, 18, in mid-air seemingly thousands of feet over the Lakes of Killarney was snapped by her mother. The viewing point is named after the ladies in the retinue of Queen Victoria during her 1861 visit to Killarney.

Shauna, from Swords, is competing at the Comdháil World Irish Dance Championships and had been on a tour of the Ring of Kerry with her mother and other dancers and relatives when they took a break at the viewing point.