We celebrate two decades of Riverdance

Last weekend 17,000 people turned out in Limerick for the launch of the 20th anniversary tour of Riverdance. So where were you when Michael Flatley and Jean Butler took to the Eurovision stage that night in 1994?

EVERYONE remembers their first time. Where they were… who they were with… what they were wearing (or not wearing). We remember the wild flailing of legs and rising passion. The slow rhythm building to a screaming, joyful, grateful release...

I’ll stop this now as it’s making me slightly ill. We’re talking here about the night 20 years ago that pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland lost its virginity to Michael Flatley. The night that many cynical, trad-music-and-dance-hating young Irelanders realised that our culture could actually be sexy. Even if it had a mullet.