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Court sides with insurer in €30m legal row over Michael Flatley’s Castlehyde estate

Riverdance star lost his bid to stop an insurance company cancelling the cover on his Cork mansion

Flatley launched the High Court case last year over allegations that works to repair damage caused by a fire in 2016 allowed a toxic residue, which he alleges occurred as a result of smoke damage, to remain in his Fermoy mansion

Riverdance star Michael Flatley has been denied an injunction against an insurer he alleges should be paying him up to €80,000 a month while he is unable to live in his multimillion-euro mansion in County Cork.

In an ongoing €30 million lawsuit over his Castlehyde estate, Flatley sought an injunction preventing Hiscox Societe Anonyme from cancelling his cover from next month onwards.

Ms Justice Eileen Roberts said the balance of justice favours refusing the injunction ...