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Michael Flatley

April 2024

  • Bolt from the blue … Jean Butler and Michael Flatley in Riverdance.

    ‘Michael Flatley appeared like a rockstar’: how Riverdance gave the jig cool factor

    Thirty years ago, Riverdance’s groundbreaking Eurovision interval performance ignited a new generation’s devotion to Irish dancing

January 2024

  • Michael Flatley was diagnosed with cancer last year.

    Alleged damage to Michael Flatley mansion to cost €30m, court told

    Former Riverdance star says he suffered ill health since remediation works after a fire

June 2023

  • Michael Flatley on stage

    Michael Flatley’s life story to be told in six-part drama series

    Irish dancer who found fame with Riverdance to be focus of ‘no holds barred’ TV biopic

March 2023

  • Irish dancing uganda

    Céilí in Kampala: why Irish dancing is proving popular in Uganda

    Schools in the country’s capital are celebrating St Patrick’s Day after Irish dancers brought a touch of the Emerald Isle to east Africa

January 2023

  • Michael Flatley

    Michael Flatley diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ form of cancer

    Riverdance star has undergone surgery and is in care of doctors, according to Instagram account

September 2022

  • Scene from Michael Flatley’s Blackbird

    A twist to Michael Flatley’s Blackbird: some people might actually like it

    Audiences finally get the chance to see the film savaged by critics as a vanity project of the Riverdancer

August 2022

  • Michael Flatley in Blackbird.

    Blackbird review – Michael Flatley’s fabulously bad spy tale is a classic of egosploitation cinema

    In various rakishly-angled hats, the Riverdance star wrote, directed and stars in a jet-setting Bond knock-off that plays out like the unsexy bits of a mid-80s porn film

July 2022

  • A crop of the official poster for Blackbird, in which Michael Flatley stars as a troubled secret agent trying to escape the dark shadows of his past.

    ‘Almost mythical’ Michael Flatley thriller Blackbird gets September release

    Lord of the Dance star ‘thrilled’ self-financed film finally being released four years after premiere

May 2020

  • Rihanna arrives at the 2019 Fashion Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

    Rihanna leapfrogs homegrown stars on UK music rich list

    Barbados-born singer near the top of the wealth charts after moving to London last year

July 2018

  • Blackbird poster

    Michael Flatley's self-financed spy thriller: what you need to know

    The ex-Lord of the Dance is starring in Blackbird, a film he’s written and directed, that sees him as a ‘troubled secret agent’ surrounded by beautiful women

January 2018

  • Melvyn Bragg interviewing Liz Taylor in 1981.

    TV review
    The South Bank Show 40th Anniversary review: a punchy celebration of the agenda-setting arts show

    The groundbreaking programme is 40. And Melvyn Bragg, understandably, isn’t going to pass up the chance to blow his own trumpet about it

January 2017

  • Celtic Tiger At Wembley Arena<br>LONDON - APRIL 18: Michael Flatley and his Lord Of The Dance company perform his latest dance and theatrical spectacular 'Celtic Tiger' about the history of the Irish people, at Wembley Arena on April 18, 2006 in London, England. The production had its world premiere in Hungary in July 2005, and was followed by the UK premiere in Sheffield last year. (Photo by Jo Hale/Getty Images)

    'Lord of the Dance' Michael Flatley to perform at Trump inauguration ball

    Chicago-born dancer will perform with his troupe at Liberty Ball on Friday after organizers had struggled to attract A-list talent to inauguration events

October 2012

  • Harvey Weinstein and Michael Flatley

    Harvey Weinstein and Michael Flatley team up for World Dance Awards

    'The movie business to some extent is shrinking, and we have to look for new horizons,' Weinstein tells Mipcom audience. By Stuart Dredge

December 2010

  • Michael Flatley

    Media Monkey
    Flatley steps into 3D

    Media Monkey: Lord of the Dance movie adds a new dimension

October 2010

  • Jean Butler and Michael Flatley in Riverdance

    Shortcuts
    Riverdance: some stomping facts

    The Irish entertainment phenomenon Riverdance is now 16 years old. But there are a few facts about the show that you may not know

November 2006

  • News in brief

    Man dies after plunge overboard from ferry | I'm better, says Flatley | Man murdered in bar

October 2006

  • Lord of dance wins his lady

    Dancer Michael Flatley has married a member of his Celtic Tiger troupe, Niamh O'Brien, in a ceremony attended by family and friends in Fermoy, Co Cork.

February 2006

  • Michael Flatley

    Dancer, 47, London

January 2005

  • Motorist in standoff over Riverdance

    Markus Aitken has few vices. A lover of the quiet life, he stays away from nightclubs because of the pounding beat. However, a weakness for a certain type of Irish folk music landed Mr Aitken in trouble with the law.

October 2004

  • My obsession...

    ... Michael Flatley on boxing.

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