This ignores the fact that Irish Dance exists in the context of the real world with real laws, and the founding of the whole org was not on sound legal footing. It's why the cheats got to stay. They couldn't LEGALLY be made to go. All we could do was improve the rules and move on for next time. -- Australian Irish Dance Message Board

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Date Posted: Mon, Jun 08 2026, 10:15:52"
Author: (more inside)
Subject: This ignores the fact that Irish Dance exists in the context of the real world with real laws, and the founding of the whole org was not on sound legal footing. It's why the cheats got to stay. They couldn't LEGALLY be made to go. All we could do was improve the rules and move on for next time.
In reply to: 0 's message, "Ok so let's discuss...." on Sat, May 09 2026, 21:30:58"

You can't legislate ethics. All of the rules and changes made post-scandal are assuming the competition structure stays the same, and to make it more difficult to cheat. That's the wrong approach. As long as an activity is subjective, people will cheat. That's human nature. Talk to anyone involved in any other subjective sport. There's some version of cheating.
What REALLY needs to happen is comprehensive competition format reform. That's the only thing that will make a really meaningful improvement to the situation.
However--there's no appetite from that, and mostly from the parents... The ones that you insist are the only ones with the power.
Real reform means reductions in comepetition sizes... Fewer kids qualifying for Nationals, Worlds, etc. When precious little Suzie who isn't particularly talented can no longer go to the Nationals by default, and the Worlds because her competition had 6 in it, it becomes a less attractive sport to be in, and they quit. That impacts the schools' buisness... So the consumer behaviour of the dancers and parents have put the teachers in a situation where all votes they take are in a protetive nature of their buisness rather than protective of the sport as a whole.
As a TC and AD who no longer teaches but is still involved, it's very frustrating to watch.

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