In September 2022, after years of speculation and sporadic delays, Michael Flatley’s Blackbird, a low-budget spy thriller, opened in Ireland.  The film starred the Irish-American dancer as a former MI6 operative “who is pulled back into the world he left when an agent connected to his past turns up to his place of business in Barbados”. The critical response was, well, critical, but the film has earned something of a cult following in the years since.  Nonetheless, Flatley was characteristically bullish when it was released. “The pandemic has brought about many unprecedented production delays, but we’re finally there. As well…

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