{"id":322011,"date":"2026-02-05T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/322011\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:44:16","slug":"shane-phelan-court-faces-tough-task-to-unravel-increasingly-complex-lord-of-the-dance-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/322011\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Phelan: Court faces tough task to unravel increasingly complex \u2018Lord of the Dance\u2019 dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Michael Flatley\u2019s 3Arena show will go ahead tonight, but bitter legal row is far from over<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Flatley outside Belfast High Court last week. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/97a3aca2-973b-4c3e-aa67-2ef35141b2c6.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 outside Belfast High Court last week. Photo: PA<\/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)\">Barring a further dramatic turn of events, the 30th anniversary tour of Michael Flatley\u2019s Lord of the Dance will kick off tonight at \u00adDublin\u2019s 3Arena.<\/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)\">That the performance is taking place at all is largely down to Mr Flatley (67) securing an emergency injunction on Tuesday against Switzer Consulting Limited, the company contracted two years ago to run the show until 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Flatley\u2019s 3Arena show will go ahead tonight, but bitter legal row is far from over Michael Flatley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4778,8661],"class_list":["post-322011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-flatley","tag-shane-phelan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116019270172265878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322011","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=322011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}