{"id":484966,"date":"2026-05-14T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484966\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:34:31","slug":"agreement-in-lord-of-the-dance-high-court-case-gives-michael-flatley-complete-control-of-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484966\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement in \u2018Lord of the Dance\u2019 High Court case gives Michael Flatley \u2018complete control\u2019 of show"},"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\">The stage production has been caught up in litigation over intellectual property rights and shares since January\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lord of the Dance creator Michael Flatley. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/120635975.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)\">Lord of the Dance creator Michael Flatley. 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)\">Entertainer Michael Flatley has formally regained full control of his lucrative Lord of the Dance show under an agreement presented to the High Court in Belfast.<\/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 development brings a halt to months of wrangling over control of the multimillion-euro show, which is currently on a 30th-anniversary tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stage production has been caught up in litigation over intellectual property rights and shares since January Lord&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[32511,18,117,19,17,4778,954,8661],"class_list":["post-484966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dublin-courts","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\/116575081549686449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484966","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=484966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}