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Kirstie McMurray & Marc Mallett
Tara Mills & Sarah Travers
Dr Samina Dornan & Professor Jim Dornan
Dr Deirdre Peake & Freddie Kinnersley
Strictly AMAZING Photography: Paul Moane, Aurora PA
Cora & Mark Regan
The Royal Does Strictly charity event, in aid of the Children’s MRI Scanner Appeal held two sell out nights raising over £100,000. Organised by Dr Deirdre Peake and her husband John Mulgrew, this unique event, supported by Kingsbridge Private Hospital featured six local personalities including Marc Mallet and Alison Fleming (UTV), Martina Purdy and Marie-Louise Connolly (BBC), Stephen Clements (Citybeat) and Kirstie McMurray (Downtown/Cool FM), who teamed up with key staff of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. Pamela
Ballantine and Pete Snodden hosted the event and Dame Mary Peters was also on hand to judge the dance moves along with Ivan Martin, Dr Julie Ann Maney, a consultant at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, musician Brian Kennedy, comedian Colin Murphy and Belfast’s Lord Mayor Alderman Gavin Robinson. Martina Purdy and her dance partner Bill McCallion, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon won on the first evening and on the second it was Dr Deirdre Peake and her dance partner “Fitness” Freddie Kinnersley who took the title.