Las Vegas, Nevada - How times change. Michael Flatley is gearing up to launch his $750m Irish-themed casino in Las Vegas, involving his biggest financial risk since he quit Riverdance in the mid-1990s. Flatley’s Lord of the Dance took in $75m in ticket sales worldwide last year, meaning that Flatley, who holds onto 41 cents of every dollar he earns, made over $30m before tax in 2003. In 1992, Flatley performed at the Seattle Center during the Irish Week Festival for a flat fee of $750.
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Should we help him by holding here a contest for the best name for his new casino?
Nevadance
Reel of Fortune
Dancing for Dollars
Grossland
Neva Dance! LOL! 
I couldn’t come up with any good one, only things like “Lord of the Slots”.
Flatley to donate treasures to Cork
The people of Munster are to be presented with two priceless 4,000 year old Bronze Age urns courtesy of ‘Lord of the Dance’ star Michael Flatley. The urns, along with human remains, were discovered by workmen fixing a septic tank on the multi millionaire’s 150-acre estate at Castle Hyde, Fermoy yesterday. A team of archaeologists are now being recruited by Mr Flatley to start a dig at the site to see what other historical artefacts remained undiscovered. Mr Flatley today described the discovery as “fantastic”.
The discovery might set the project back a year or so but Flately doesn’t seem to mind. See rest of story and pictures of his old mansion here.
Interesting, when i clicked on the link, the headline i got was: Flatley goes for Himalayan dry rot cure. 
Sounds like way too much information, to me!
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What? So now he’s got dry rot in his Wooden Leg? 
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Looks like it could be ‘long John’ Silver in Panto next year,never mind fancy Casino’s. 
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Hey, maybe there will finally be a venue for a regular weekly seisiun in Las Vegas…
Lord of the Chance. 
I still hope to hear him play flute some day.
The Shag with the Money
I like the obviously staged shot of him handing up the urn. We all know he was down there in his wellies by the septic tank when they were discovered.
But talk about serendipity and destiny. This guy is all over the map. He may declare he is “bigger than John Lennon” at this rate.
But is the casino thing for real? Sounds like an April 1 dateline to me.
-Lazlo Toth
Have a look at that photo. Notice the two Overton low Ds in the background. They came from the layer immediately above the urn. From the aluminium age I guess.
I still can’t get the mental picture of his froufy haircut from original Riverdance out of my head. I may have to go to therapy for this issue. Makes me want to write a slip jig called “The Curly Mullet.”
Casino name: “Banish Yer Fortune” or “Banish Misfortune” depending on how you make out…
On a serious note, if you go to Lorenzo’s link, there’s an article describing the fact that an entire village is for sale. It says the locals want someone who is interested in restoring the village, but not turning it into a tourist trap. Making it into a tourist trap would be a travesty, IMO, but most contractors would do just that, being more interested in money than heritage. I focused on this because I just read a book that pointed out that quite a bit of this kind of thing has been happening since the creation of the EU.
“In 2001…the home construction business was booming, the traditional one-story Irish farmhouse was being replaced by two-story stone mansions whose design seemed more appropriate for the landscape of Germany, France, or suburban Oklahoma City. The narrow roads that demand expert driving skills in Ford Fiestas and VW Golfs seemed all the more narrow by a shift to oversized Mercedes and Bristish-made SUVs. Noticeable also was the sudden introduction of No Trespassing signs in the countryside…Since joining the EU, Ireland has had to create job opportunities and open up the country for sale to people from other member countries. Unfortunately, far too many of those moving in come with attitudes and biases that conflict with those of the locals.”
Where you used to be able to respectfully walk across farmland, there are some areas where now you can’t. And some tourist-oriented land-owners are setting up things like false dolmans.
I was saddened when I read this because I visited Ireland in 2001 and saw some of the building (it was everywhere) but didn’t realize it got worse than that.
Sorry… going a little OT here…
Montana, this “village” that is for sale would be a great opportunity for Dale to start his own cult, called Chiffdom, or some such thing, kind of like the Bhagwan Sri Rashneesh did in Oregon. We could all move over there and turn our wealth and possesions over to the Guru. Dale probably needs a couple hundred Rolls anyway.
The first appartment complex. Who’ll be first.
He’d spend it all in whistles.
Wow! A real (not just virtual) community made up entirely of whistle players. Ya know, a lot of those religious types who set up their own communes were looking for Utopia. But this could be it; the ultimate, undisputed Utopia!! 
(the UUU)
Nothing but whistle playing and whistle making and all things whistle.
But I guess we’d have to set aside a couple hours in the afternoon for OT.