{"id":180636,"date":"2025-11-14T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/180636\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:52:13","slug":"michael-flatley-must-pay-e1-1m-upfront-for-legal-costs-ahead-of-e30m-action-over-cork-mansion-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/180636\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Flatley must pay \u20ac1.1m upfront for legal costs ahead of \u20ac30m action over Cork mansion works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Flatley at his Castlehyde mansion in 2010. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3afd14a6-60b0-4900-af1d-49d23272e5ce.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael Flatley at his Castlehyde mansion in 2010. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Lord of the Dance star Michael Flatley has been ordered by a judge to pay \u20ac1.1million upfront as security for costs in advance of his \u20ac30million court action over works carried out at his Cork mansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Flatley legal team had asked the Commercial Court not to award the full \u20ac2.8million sought by the other parties in the case and to limit security for costs to one third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Flatley at his Castlehyde mansion in 2010. Photo: Tony Gavin Lord of the Dance star Michael Flatley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4778],"class_list":{"0":"post-180636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-michael-flatley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115549093807527057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}