Michael Flatley won't rule out a bid to run for the President of Ireland

Michael Flatley will not rule out a presidential run for Ireland as he hinted that it could be on the cards.

The Riverdance legend said he was "flattered" when he was told that fans would love to see him in Aras an Uachtarain.

Michael D Higgins is the current president, but it will be time for a new name in the Aras soon as the next presidential election looks likely to take place next year.

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When on the Brendan O'Connor Show on RTE Radio One, he was told that listeners had said they would love to see Michael Flatley as the president, to which he replied: "Oh stop! No. Michael D Higgins is the President of Ireland."

"Until next year," Brendan replied.

"No comment!" said Michael. "I'm flattered that they are saying that. God bless them, Brendan."

It comes as Michael also discussed his health after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, but is thankfully now in remission.

"I'm up and down. I'm still going in for treatments regularly, but I don't give in easy. I'm a man of faith, Brendan, and I highly recommend it," he said. "It got me through a lot of the tough times. And I'm blessed I have a beautiful wife and son who look after me and give me courage when I need it."

He added: "They put me on some medication, even recently, and, you know, it's hard. Some days I don't know what planet I'm on until I get my senses straight - just pounding in the water and I go for runs as much as I can, whatever little bit I can get out of me. But yeah, the medication is the hard part. That's really the difficult bit."

He admitted that going through health issues has made him reflect on his life.

"I'm always talking about, 'The bell rings - throw your best punch'. Have I done that?" said Michael. "I look back at my life and I've won my boxing titles and my dance titles and the flute music and these kinds of things and created the shows.

"You know, life has been good to me, but because I'm such a driven person, there's always a higher mountain to climb. There's always another thing to achieve. And much of my life now I spend... I'm trying to inculcate my dancers with that self-belief that, 'Yes, you can have it. Yes, you can do this - whatever it is'. And because of that, most of my dancers go on to open dance schools or go on to business."