

Oireachtas Rince na hÉireann | February 16 - 22, 2025
Adjudicators & Musicians
Adjudicators
List of Adjudicators coming soon!
Invitation for Self-Nomination
The self-nomination process for adjudicators for Oireachtas Rince na hÉireann 2025 will open on Monday, 14 October 2024, and close on Monday, 21 October 2024, at 11:59 PM (Irish time).
Voting by worldwide ballot will occur at www.clrgregistration.com, commencing on Thursday, 24 October 2024, at 10:00 AM (Irish time) and ending on Friday, 25 October, at 10:00 PM (Irish time).
All currently registered teachers and CLRG members are eligible to participate in the vote.
Judging Format
There will be rotating panels of five adjudicators to judge each competition. The highest and lowest marks will be discarded for each competitor or team before the recall (where applicable) and again to prepare the final result.
Application & Selection
The first phase of adjudicator selection is by mandating, a process similar to jury duty, where eligible adjudicators are selected by random draw (Download details HERE). For 2024, this process took approximately five weeks to complete, and nine adjudicators were selected for the panel.
The second phase of adjudicator selection is by self-nomination/application. This phase cannot occur until the first phase is complete (once responses and contracts are received by the mandated judges). Interested adjudicators who meet the criteria (Download details HERE) are invited to submit their names to appear on an online ballot for all CLRG registrants worldwide to participate in the selection process by voting. The 2024 vote opened on 20 December and closed on 21 December.
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297 CLRG registrants/members out of 2,187 possible voters participated in the voting process.
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23 individuals appeared on the ballot. One individual withdrew. 21 of the remaining 22 individuals were selected.
NOTE: The self-nomination process purposely did not commence until after all the regional qualifiers took place, however, that did not leave enough time to complete the task before closing the office for the holidays. This process will need to start much sooner for Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne 2025.
Official List of Adjudicators

Aisling Toal Casey
United States

Bláthnaid McCaul
Ireland

John Godley
United States

JR Walker
United States

Justine Ward-Mallinson
England

Maria McCaul-Mohan
Ireland

Marie Connell
England

Mary Alice Mullane Godley
United States

Niall Holly
Ireland

Nikki MacLoone O'Meara
Ireland

Siobhan McDonnell-Monaghan
Ireland

Sorcha McCaul
Ireland


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Musicians
Official List of Muscians

Anthony Davis
England

Francis Ward
Ireland

Kevin Joyce
Ireland

Liam O'Sullivan
England

Paul O'Donnell
Ireland

Sean O'Brien
Canada
Invitation for Self-Nomination
The self-nominating application process for musicians is now closed for Oireachtas Rince na hÉireann.
The list of applicants were screened for eligibility, and a link to an online ballot was sent to members of An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG).
Notification of selection was sent out the week of 23 September, and signed contracts are due by Tuesday 15 October. Once all contracts and supporting documentation have been received, the website will be updated with the list of contracted musicians.