The Irish dancing phenomenon, Riverdance, is 25-years-old today.

NOBODY can forget that heartstopping seven minutes during Eurovision 1994 when Ireland, quite suddenly, became the centre of the cultural universe. None of us, indeed, could have predicted what would swirl upwards and outwards from that brief entr’acte. But it happened, and a legend was born.

SUPERSTAR Michael Flatley is determined to get married in his adopted Irish home, but hasn’t yet set an exact date with fiancee Lisa Murphy because he has no idea when the €30 million reconstruction of Castlehyde House will be completed.