Riverdance stars pass on tips to budding Irish dancers from Ukraine

Kristina Bondarenko (centre), from Ukraine, who learned Irish dancing in her native Odesa before fleeing the war takes part in a class with members of the Riverdance troupe Jason O’Neill (right), from Belfast, and Emma Mannion (second left), from Roscommon, at the Rathmines Ukrainian Community Centre in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA)

Ukrainian refugees who have found a love for Irish dancing since moving to Dublin were treated to a lesson of a lifetime when Riverdance stars dropped in to pass on some tips.

The group attends a weekly dancing class in Rathmines Ukrainian Community Centre in south Dublin taken by 17-year-old Kristina Bondarenko.