A Virginia teen’s cancer diagnosis couldn’t have come at a worse time. After years of competing as an Irish dancer, the pain in his leg took him out of the world championship last year. Now the Front Royal boy has healed and is about to get a second chance on the world stage.

There are a lot of things that make 17-year-old Finnbar O’Reilly special. He’s medaled five times in All Irelands, the world championship of Irish dance. He’s one of 14 children. And he is a cancer survivor.

“Even when I was on chemo, I was practicing so I’ve just been trying to dance the whole time … just because I was expecting to do worlds last year and then I got diagnosed with cancer,” O’Reilly said.

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