Niamh O'Brien

Niamh is an Irish dancer who performed the lead role of Saoirse in the show "Lord of the Dance". She started Irish dancing at the tender age of 3 and was taught by Marie Duffy-Pask, world-renowned Irish dancing teacher. Competed professionally until the of 17, when she was placed 4th at the World Championships. Niamh and Michael Flatley were married in St Patrick's Church in Fermoy Co. Cork, Ireland by Father Aidan Troy who read a blessing from the Pope. The bride looked stunning in a simple pearl necklace and an £80,000 vintage beaded Badgley Mischka dress and full fish tail veil. she had a very elegant bouquet of deep-red roses. The wedding ring, a band of gold - cost more than £300,000. The engagement ring, made of Irish gold and commissioned in Chicago, is thought to have cost at least twice as much. The couple's son Michael St. James was born April 25, 2007