Intense competition is expected when O’Connell’s Bar in Eyre Square goes for sale by tender in the coming weeks. The pub is expected to fetch €10 million. Mr Ray Rooney of Rooney Auctioneers, who is responsible for the sale of the Eyre Square property, told the Galway Independent that at [...]

Furniture and contents from a Co Antrim convent, which has closed after 81 years, are to be publicly auctioned later this week.
St Louis nuns arrived in Ballymena in 1924 to open a school but overheads and an ageing community forced the nuns to close the convent doors earlier this year.
The convent is for sale and [...]

One of the most expensive houses on sale in Dublin at the moment is the house of former Attorney-General and senior counsel Colm Condon.
Sorrento, on Nerano Road in Dalkey, is in the €5m price range. The house has great views of Dalkey Island from the reception rooms and some of the six [...]

One of the highlights of the Bonhams Knightsbridge sale of 150 carpets and rugs on October 11 is a large Arts and Crafts carpet, with an estimate of £20,000-25,000. It covered the dining room floor of a Lancashire country house for a century and was woven in Co Donegal, sometime around the end of [...]

Wilsons will sell the contents of St Louis Convent, Ballymena on their Mallusk auction premises on Thursday at 7pm.
Many quaity items of antique furniture, porcelain and Irish art will come under the hammer.

DeVeres stage a 220 lot evening sale on Tuesday. Included are works by Jack B Yeats, Louis Le Brocquy, Paul Henry, Gerard Dillon and many others across the scene.
Rory Guthrie of DeVeres says: “Bringing fresh paintings to the market is what the Irish art buyer wants and this auction, of over 200 lots, presents [...]

The Irish bloodstock industry is bracing itself for significant losses this week due to a continuing feud between two of racing’s leading figures, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum and John Magnier of Coolmore.
Breeders were looking forward to a bumper three days at the yearling sale at Goffs in Co Kildare, which starts tomorrow, but [...]

The GAA has vowed to get to the bottom of the ticket rip-off which has seen at least eight tickets go on sale on an internet auction site. Up to Friday night eight tickets were for sale on the eBay website from five different sources with each of the tickets being sold for well above [...]

ROSS’S: a 19 century horse study sold for £1,500 while an embossed 4 piece silver service, Chester went at £320, followed by a three piece bergere suite at £280.
Among other lots were: Victorian diamond brooch £260; diamond pendant on chain £220; 18ct gold three stone diamond ring £190; Tom McGoldrick watercolour £180; James [...]

A bid of €1,843 has currently been entered on auction website eBay for a pair of tickets – currently in the possession of an Armagh man – for the lower Cusack stand.

A group of Irish antarctic exploration enthusiasts yesterday spent a total of €38,000 on historic items which belonged to Cork- born Polar explorer Patrick Keohane.
The items cost €3,000 more than the Irish bidders had to spend, but the driving force behind the venture, [...]

Tickets for Sunday’s All Ireland Football Final between Kerry and Tyrone are being sold for almost 10 times their face value, it emerged today.A pair of €60 stand tickets posted on the ebay auction site by a Co Tyrone person have so far attracted bids of €585 each.Opposition spokesman on sport and former Kerry All-Ireland [...]

Hundreds of items from the estate of Thomas Cruse brought more than $48,000 at an auction in Fort Benton US, Saturday.”It took a lot of research to get ready for this, but it was well worth the time and effort,” said Shane Ophus, the auctioneer for the event.Cruse, an Irish immigrant, struck it rich mining [...]

A collection of slides of human tissue has been withdrawn from public auction after complaints from relatives affected by the human organ scandal.
The slides were from Queen’s University, Belfast, and it is looking into how they came to be up for sale.
Kate Moore was among those affected when organs and tissues were kept by hospitals [...]

Christie’s has announced it will auction Portrait of a Lady and Her Daughter in December for an estimated £5 million ($11.7 million). Since its creation in 1550, the life of the painting has been dramatic. From the 1920s, it was in the collection of the French picture dealer Rene Gimpel. Just before World War II, [...]