Archive for May, 2006

Mobile phone users can access eBay.ie website

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Customers of eBay’s Irish website can now access the service by mobile phone. The deal between O2 and eBay will allow those using i-mode technology to log on to the site.
Customers will be able to access all their familiar “My eBay” features through the service and will be able to bid and pay for goods [...]

Subaru rally car fails to sell on eBay

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

RALLY fans have failed to snap up Denis Biggerstaff’s Subaru Impreza WRC after the Dromara ace put the car up for sale on auction website Ebay.
Within 24 hours of the car being placed on the website, the page received 1000 hits and by the last 24 hours of the 10-day auction there had been more [...]

Irish tycoons make healthy profit from £200million sale

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Irish tycoons John Magnier and Dermot Desmond are set make £15m each from the £200m sale of health club chain Next Generation to property investment company London & Regional.
L&R yesterday emerged the winner of a tense auction of the business when Next Generation shareholders owning 92.6pc of the company gave their acceptances to the deal.
L&R [...]

Popular ‘Left Bank’ pub goes up for auction

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Athlone Advertiser
One of Athlone’s best known pubs goes under the hammer at a public auction on Friday, 2nd June next. Higgins’ Bar has been much beloved of residents of the West Side over the years.
Located in the heart of Athlone’s ‘Left Bank’ at Pearse Street, it has been a popular haunt for lovers of banter [...]

O2 offer mobile eBay services

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

O2 Ireland has partnered with eBay to make the online auction site available to customers of the mobile operator. Users of O2’s i-mode mobile internet service can now visit eBay.ie on their handsets to bid on and pay for goods in more than 13,000 categories and to avail of familiar eBay features such as “My [...]