Colm O'Regan: It's never too late to start your love affair with ballet

I don’t know how far away from it I was reared, but it was a few miles anyway, and a few decades away as well. The ballet, I mean.

There wasn’t any ballet in Dripsey that I’m aware of, unless there was an underground scene. But we’d have heard. Even with them quiet shoes tiptoeing around, there’d surely have been talk.