Life is good for 12-year-old Chloe Johnston, for the Maguiresbridge girl took up Scottish Highland Dancing two years ago, and since then she has cleaned up at competitions across Northern Ireland.

Chloe first got hooked on the top-tapping dance when she started going to classes at Maguiresbridge Primary School, two years ago, under the guidance of tutor Gillian Jones. Shortly after Chloe entered her first competition in Kilkeel, and since then she has never looked back. In the last two years she has won a host of titles, including the Maiden City competition, the Heart of Down Cup, and twice took the Fermanagh Community Cup. She has also won competitions in Altnaveigh, Ballynahinch and Belfast. Most recently Chloe competed in the Fermanagh Feis, where she took seven gold medals, along with the overall cup.

Such has been her success, that Chloe has now been invited to join the Belfast based dance school 'Bright Lights'. Chloe explains that while she is extremely grateful for the guidance of her tutor Gillian Jones and the Maguiresbridge dance class, she is very much looking forward to the increased opportunity and competition which she can now avail of with the Belfast group which she will start dancing with in June.

Chloe has well and truly been bitten by the dancing bug, practising at least one hour a day, but more usually she dances her way through the day wherever she may be.

Chloe currently competes in seven different dances, and is in the process of perfecting two more to increase her level of competition. Now a veteran dancer, the stage holds little fear for Chloe, however she explains it is dancing with Swords which always make her the most nervous, as if a dancer touches the swords at all with her feet she is disqualified.

So with such success already under her belt, it is hardly surprising the rest of the family have also become addicted to the dance, with younger brothers Lloyd (10), and Rhys (8), also keen Scottish Highland Dancers.

So with Chloe heading off to a new dance school even bigger competitions and challenges beckon for the talented young dancer who is sure to secure many more cups in the years to come.