{"id":396391,"date":"2026-03-21T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/396391\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:28:09","slug":"former-solicitor-to-michael-flatley-emerges-as-a-key-figure-in-battle-for-lord-of-the-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/396391\/","title":{"rendered":"Former solicitor to Michael Flatley emerges as a key figure in battle for \u2018Lord of the Dance\u2019"},"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\">Ex-representative refusing to play ball and hand over documents in case valued at \u20ac200m\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018Lord of the Dance\u2019 Michael Flatley pictured in the InterContinental Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4d554c6b-b515-41b5-9b3e-67991d6ed04e.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)\">\u2018Lord of the Dance\u2019 Michael Flatley pictured in the InterContinental Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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)\">A row between Michael Flatley and his former solicitor is harming his bid to assert control over the Lord of the Dance, the entertainer\u2019s new lawyers have claimed.<\/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 67-year-old dancer and choreographer is still locked in a legal dispute with Northern Ireland company Switzer Consulting Ltd over control of the lucrative show he created three decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-representative refusing to play ball and hand over documents in case valued at \u20ac200m \u2018Lord of the Dance\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[36941,18,117,19,17,4778,8661],"class_list":["post-396391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-denis-obrien","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-flatley","tag-shane-phelan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116266461135242329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396391","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=396391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}