{"id":407509,"date":"2026-03-27T22:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/407509\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:35:14","slug":"michael-flatley-seizes-control-of-lord-of-the-dance-removing-board-and-share-trustee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/407509\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Flatley seizes control of Lord of the Dance, removing board and share trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Flatley outside Belfast High Court. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/05d359ad-7ce1-4d28-89bb-6190f56775c5.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. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">Michael Flatley appears to have prevailed in the battle for control of Lord of the Dance after removing most of the directors of the Northern Ireland company which had sought to oust him.<\/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 decision by the High Court in Belfast today to remove a trustee who was holding his shares in Switzer Consulting Limited paved the way for the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Michael Flatley outside Belfast High Court. Photo: Getty Michael Flatley appears to have prevailed in the battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407510,"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-407509","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\/116303529549939323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407509","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=407509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}