Ellen Coyne

Everyone in the sport decided that if they wanted to survive, they just kind of needed to move on from it.

So I think there'll always be an air of suspicion that exists out there in Irish dancing that maybe it's not quite fair, but that's very hard to prove, particularly if it can be put down to maybe sour grapes on the part of a passionate parent or a dance team.

No, but to be honest, having read some of those texts, I think that was kind of two people kind of just flirting with each other.

I think that that was blown up a lot in the UK tabloids at the time and made into something more salacious than it actually was.

I think it was two people kind of messing with each other in texts that they thought would forever remain private and obviously didn't, became very, very public.

I'll put it to you this way.

They wouldn't be the first or last people to maybe have an affair with somebody they shouldn't at an Irish dancing competition.

I'm very happy to be here.

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