Three decades of work by Dublin born artist Jack Packenham, who has lived most of his life in Northern Ireland, come up for sale at Ross’s on Wednesday (7pm).

The only car the late Pope John Paul II ever owned sold at auction for $680,000 (383,445 pounds) on Saturday to a Houston attorney and car collector.
The car, which fetched much less than previous estimates of $2 million to $5 million, attracted four or five bids before being purchased by John O’Quinn, said a spokeswoman [...]

The Welsh Rugby Union is to take action against four more Welsh rugby clubs - over the sale of tickets to internationals on an online auction.
They are Loughor, Pontllanfraith, Narberth and Abercrave.
Rugby authorities in New Zealand and Australia are also being asked how some of their allocations ended up on sale.

London Irish became the first of the 12 Premier Rugby clubs to have its shares admitted to trading on ShareMark today (28th October).
Shares in London Irish Holdings Limited, the holding company of the Premiership rugby club, can be traded on ShareMark, the auction based market designed for small to medium-sized companies from today. Joining [...]

Galway Crystal confirmed this week that they are looking at the possibility of disposing of the Merlin Park site, following approaches from a number of developers interested in the attractively located property. However, while the company is keen to establish a realistic value for the site, directors of the firm said they have not made [...]