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| The Surreal World of Irish Dancing Posted: 14 May 2011 05:02 AM PDT Jiggery-pokery! £2,000 dresses, lashings of fake tan, parents who sacrifice everything for fame-hungry children… Enter the surreal world of Irish dancing. Loretta Mauriello paid £1 for the first Irish dance class her daughter attended. The modest price, she explains, was part of the attraction. She was working as a market trader and couldn't afford much more. The irony isn't lost on her. Fast forward 15 years and she practically puts her fingers in her ears when you ask her to quantify what she has spent on her only child's 'hobby', now that her daughter Simona is 21, and still dancing. 'Oh, don't go there,' she shrieks. 'I've never worked it all out. I'm afraid to. But yes, we're talking thousands and thousands. She first traveled to America for a competition when she was seven, and we've been all over the world. Every penny – flights, hotels – has been paid for by me.
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