No sale: Michael Flatley’s Castlehyde mansion off open market

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.

It is now being offered directly, and more discretely, “to a network of high net worth individuals, financiers and investors around the globe”.

The planned sale of the 18th century North Cork Georgian mansion, which had been the private home of Ireland’s first president Douglas Hyde, filled acres of international newsprint and glossy magazines after being put up for sale in October 2015, and even notched up more than 33,000 hits on daft.ie alone.