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Irish dance community rallies to support the Richard family
BOSTON - The Irish dance community is supporting one of their own. Seven-year-old Jane Richard, a dancer with Clifden Academy of Irish Dance in Milton, Massachusetts, was one of the victims of the Boston Marathon bomb attacks.
Jane lost her leg and remains hospitalized. Her brother, eight-year-old Martin, was killed; her mother, Denise (43), remains hospitalized after brain surgery. The family was waiting for her dad to cross the finish line.
Her eldest brother Henry (12), and father Bill (42) managed to escape from the bomb attack uninjured.
It was just last month that some 7,000 dancers, family members, friends and onlookers from around the globe attended the World Championships of Irish Dance in Boston, which served as the host for only the second time the event has taken place in the U.S.
With so many dancers having toured and performed in Boston recently, the tragedy hit even closer to home. Once the word spread about Jane being an Irish dancer, calls for fundraising and support for the Richard family dominated Irish dance message boards and Facebook accounts.
The Boston Irish community organized an event called Dance Out for Jane on April 27 featuring Irish dance groups from all around Boston, including a special performance of current local World Medal Holders and a former World Champion (also from Boston).
Meanwhile in New York a music and dance show also raised funds for the Richard family.
Another fundraiser took place in Kansas City with live Irish music and dancers from The Driscoll School of Irish Dance, The O'Riada-McCarty-Man-ning Academy, Ceili at the Crossroads, and Clanna Eireann Celtic Dancers.
Another campaign called "Wrapping Jane in Our Love," is a Facebook campaign to take t-shirts representing Irish dance schools and make them into a quilt
So far, they have collected 172 shirts from schools plus one cummerbund won by a male competitor and have received pledges for shirts from 293 more schools, all from 15 or 20 countries.
In addition, Mchael Flatley, creator and choreographer of the Lord of the Dance musical, sent a signed shirt as well as one signed by the cast.
A quilter in Boston has assembled a team to sew the quilt. They have enough shirts to make quilts for the entire Richard family, plus a wall hanging.
Local feiseanna continue to raise money, and dance outs are in the works across several cities in the Midwest. More than $250,000 has been raised for the Richard Family Fund to date.
If you would like to help but are unable to attend any of the events, donations may be made at
www.richardfamilyfund.org.
Boston Bombings
During the Boston Marathon on April 15, two pressure cooker bombs exploded at 2:49 PM EDT, killing three
SEVEN-YEAR OLD Jane Richard lost her leg in the Boston Marathon bombings which took the life of her eight-year-old brother Martin. She remains in hospital.
people and injuring 264.
The blasts which were described by President Obama as an "act of terror," killed three and injured more than 200. At least 14 people lost all or part of a limb and three of them lost more than
The suspects were identified later that day as brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Shortly after the FBI released the images, the suspects allegedly killed an MIT police officer, carjacked an SUV, and initiated an exchange of gunfire with the police in Watertown, Massachusetts.
During the exchange, an MBTA police officer was critically injured, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was injured and escaped. An unprecedented manhunt ensued, with
thousands of police searching a 20-block area of Watertown.
On April 19, the authorities asked residents of Watertown and surrounding areas, including Boston, to stay indoors, and the public transportation system and most businesses and public institutions were shut down, resulting in a deserted urban environment of historic size and duration.
Around 7 PM, shortly after the "shel-ter-in-place" order had been lifted, a Watertown resident helped police find the suspect who was hiding in his back yard. Dzhokhar was arrested and taken to a hospital shortly thereafter
Dzhokhar was charged on April 22, while still in the hospital, with use of a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of properly resulting in death.
April Jones murder trial continues in Wales
MOLD, Flintshire - Skull fragments and DNA from blood matching that of April Jones were found at the home of the man accused of the "sexually motivated" murder of the "happy and smiling" five-year-old, the court has heard.
A charred boning knife was also found at the cottage of Mark Bridger (47), a former abattoir slaughterman, who is accused of snatching the child from outside her home in October last year, it was claimed.
The jury at Mold Crown Court heard that Bridger was fascinated by child murders and kept pictures from notorious cases from around the world. His collection included Soham victims Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Bridger denies abducting and murdering April, whose disappearance in Machynlleth, Mid-Wales, sparked the largest search in British police history. Neither her body nor her clothes have ever been found.
He claims he accidentally crushed the child to death under the wheels of his Land Rover on the estate where she lived near two of his own children.
A combination of "alcohol, adrenaline and panic" meant he could not remember what he had done with her dead or dying body after loading it into the vehicle, although he did later claim to have put it somewhere "out of the rain," the court heard.
LITTLE April Jones was taken while playing with friends near her home in Machynlleth, Wales.
A child witness described seeing April getting into the Land Rover before being driven off. But his vehicle did not head towards local hospitals, instead taking a back route out of the estate, it was claimed.
On the second day of opening the case for the prosecution, Elwen Evans QC took the jury through the story Bridger told when he was arrested on October 2.
She said the evidence against him painted a "compelling and overwhelming" picture and that he went to "enormous lengths" to cover up her murder.
The prosecution said his refusal to reveal the whereabouts of her body amounted to a "cruel game."
The trial is expected to last until June.