Irish pay-TV broadcaster Setanta confirmed on Friday that it will bid for two of the six packages in an auction for Premier League football rights.
“We are interested in bidding for two packages. This would be at the lower end of the scale,” a spokesman told Reuters.
Premier League rights, divided into six packages of 23 games [...]

A host of stars including Bill Nighy, Alan Rickman, Dame Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson and Nell McAndrew have all thrown their hats in the ring for a new charity fundraising drive.
The celebrities have all donated hats to be sold in the Debra charity`s “Celebrity Mad Hatter eBay Auction” which will be launched this month to [...]

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Around €15m worth of art, due to go under the hammer next month, is this week on show to the public.
Works by Lavery, Lowry, Munnings, and Turner are among the pieces in the free exhibition in Dublin’s Merrion Hotel tomorrow and Friday.
The items are all part of Christie’s 10th Anniversary Sale of Irish [...]

PayPal, the money transfer arm of online auction giant eBay, is leasing the entire Atrium building at Blanchardstown for an annual rent of around 1.1 million, giving Dublin’s suburban office market a major boost after years of double-digit vacancy rates.
The e-commerce firm has signed up for two five-storey blocks, which total 6,968.66sq m (73,934sq ft) [...]

Kilkenny County Enterprise Board and the Irish Internet Association are presenting a seminar on ‘Making the Internet Work For You’. The seminar takes place on Thursday 20th April in the Lyrath Estate Hotel, Kilkenny.
The keynote speaker on the day is David Jesse, Managing Director of eBay.ie Ireland. Other speakers include John Mitchell, MD of Strata [...]