Ellen Coyne
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622 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Ellen Coyne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's some people who swore they never did it, but everyone said that they were aware of it.
Well, unfortunately, it never got that far.
So they set up disciplinary hearings into the 44, but it dragged on and dragged on.
And long story short, eventually it all disintegrated because the Irish dance body couldn't get a key witness to come forward.
What happened there was the people who had been accused were furious because they felt that they never got their day in court, if you want to use that phrase, to vindicate themselves or to say that they didn't know what they were accused of or this proof wasn't enough or these screenshots should have been doctored.
On the other side of it, you had people who felt that this was going to be like a big vindicating cleansing moment for Irish dancing.
And that never kind of materialised, that they never got the sanctions or like the verdicts again.
Some rules were brought in after the Fesh Fixing scandal emerged to effectively make it harder for someone that would try to cheat.
So it's much tougher on judges.
They don't know what category they'll be judging until the last possible moment.
They don't get the dance numbers in advance.
However, I think by 2025, when you got to the World Championships, that almost couldn't be put on because this cheating scandal had cost Irish dancing so much financially and reputationally.
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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