{"id":323874,"date":"2026-02-06T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/323874\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:59:11","slug":"michael-flatley-claims-lord-of-the-dance-royalties-missing-in-legal-wrangle-with-events-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/323874\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Flatley claims \u2018Lord of the Dance\u2019 royalties missing in legal wrangle with events company"},"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\">Claim made in solicitor\u2019s letter \u2018terminating\u2019 agreement with Switzer Consulting Ltd\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Flatley speaking to members of the media outside Belfast High Court. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4921f65b-643a-4ada-b065-05302f43a656.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 speaking to members of the media outside Belfast High Court. 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)\">Lawyers for entertainer Michael \u00adFlatley have alleged royalties due to him for Lord of the Dance performances in Dublin, eastern Europe and Australia \u201cremain unaccounted for\u201d.<\/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 allegation was made in a solicitor\u2019s letter earlier this week, which said Flatley was terminating a services agreement with Switzer Consulting Ltd, the entertainment events company contracted in 2024 to organise and run the dance show for a period of five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claim made in solicitor\u2019s letter \u2018terminating\u2019 agreement with Switzer Consulting Ltd Michael Flatley speaking to members of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4778,954,8661],"class_list":["post-323874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-flatley","tag-northern-ireland","tag-shane-phelan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116025226964388563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323874","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=323874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}