The Government has been urged to buy Micheal Flatley’s mansion, which is also the ancestral home of the first president of Ireland.

Dancer Michael Flatley’s Castlehyde mansion has disappeared from property websites, having failed to find a buyer after two years on the open market with a quoted guide price of €20m.

Michael Flatley and his family were in their lavish 18th-century home last night as thieves broke in and stole a rhino horn.