Clare Daly will graduate from Laban London this year after 3 years at the highest prestigeous college. However, we'll keep flying the Wexford flag as Sorcha O'Connor was successful in her audition to secure a place and started her training last September.

Sinead Reck is in her final year of Inchicore College completing her teacher training in RAD ballet and ISTD Modern.

One of the first of the students to go professional was Colette Maguire, Enniscorthy, after she had taken her elementary RAD major exams, she headed to England for two years to complete her teacher training exams - she now runs her own academy in Tralee, Co. Kerry.

Emma Molloy then completed her elementary major exams and was successfully accepted to the Doreen Bird College, London. From there, she danced professionally touring as far as Japan on one occasion. She returned to England, where she taught extensivly with various dance academys and now we are very fortunate that she has returned to Wexford, and is now teaching for the Wexford School of Ballet and Modern Dance.

Dara Pierce was the next to go, but before she did she won the EBU Scholarship and was chosen from hundreds to represent Ireland in a Eurovision dance spectacular. She was also the first to receive honours in her pre-elementary and elementary Royal Academy ballet examinations in Dublin. Finally, before she left she received the highest bursary ever given by the arts council in Ireland to help her further her talent. She used it wisely, being the first Irish girl ever to be accepted into the English National Ballet School in London.

Miriam Bowe is another pupil to receive honours in a major ballet examination and also the winner of the Royal Academy Sindy scholarship, and of three consecutive arts council grants. Both Miriam and Dara won Scholarships to the Kirov School in Moscow.

Another pupil Edel Quinlan, who has been with the school since the tender age of three, is now a qualified RAD teacher after completing three years at the Inchincore College Dublin. Edel has danced in Michigan, US on Full Brite Scholarship. She is currently running her own school in Waterford.