Believed to be one of the rarest Irish banknotes in existence, an Irish £50 note sold in London today for £27,600, a new world record price.
The Bank of Ireland £50 note, dated May 5, 1827, is probably the only one of its kind in private hands today. It bears the serial number 1362 and is [...]

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Ofcom has announced the six companies that have qualified to bid in the forthcoming auction of radio spectrum for wireless radio services.
The companies bidding for the 4 megahertz of radio spectrum are: AirRadio Ltd; Arqiva Ltd; Motorola Ltd; The Joint Radio Company Ltd; T-Mobile (UK) Ltd and Ventura Team Spectrum One Ltd.
A sealed-bid [...]

The Sunday Independent reported yesterday that the extraordinary glut of houses coming on the Irish market this month has led to widespread falls in the prices being demanded by estate agents.
With nondescript detached houses without garages selling for €1.2m in recent times, in South Dublin, it shouldn’t be surprising that pricing at some point would [...]

Posters depicting by-gone images of Northern Irish tourism are set to go under the hammer in London.
Auction house Christie’s has a catalogue of almost 400 travel and vintage posters for the 14 September sale.
Scenes from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland designed by some famous artists are up for auction.
Many of the posters, which [...]

David Jesse, the managing director at Ebay Ireland, says his company would like to see universal availability for broadband at a low price here as it would make Ebay’s service better. He says that if a person wants to make a living out of being an Ebay seller, broadband makes his business easier and more [...]

A PRIME development site in the business hub of Castlebar will go under the hammer on Thursday, September 21.
The site, located on the Lough Lannagh Road at Newtown borders the back of Tesco and is ideal for retail outlets causing a huge stir in the county and further afield since news that it was [...]

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An art forger who fooled an Antiques Roadshow expert into paying £20,000 for a fake painting was jailed for two years yesterday.
Robert Thwaites, 54, duped connoisseur Rupert Maas, using tips from The Art Forger’s Handbook. These included the use of genuine Victorian newspaper as backing paper.
He claimed the picture was a family heirloom [...]

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Saga, the company renowned for selling holidays and insurance to millions of over-50s, is to conduct an auction of its radio business that is likely to attract interest from some of the country’s biggest media groups, The Sunday Telegraph.
Charterhouse, the private equity investor that owns Saga, has decided that the company’s quartet of [...]

Major changes to stamp duty on houses are to be considered today by the Progressive Democrats in a push for new tax cuts after the next general election. The party will be given a series of options to consider from a package drawn up by party experts.
These options will include the abolition of stamp [...]

Premier Foods PLC has been forced out of the 1.7 bln stg battle for United Biscuits’ snacks businesses in the UK and Ireland after the owner of Branston pickles and Ambrosia custard struggled to raise enough cash to win the auction, the Financial Times newspaper reported.
The move leaves the path clear for US buy-out firm [...]

The football shirt worn by George Best during one of his greatest games sold for £24,000 when it went under the hammer on Wednesday.
The late soccer legend came back from a six-week suspension to score six goals in Manchester United’s 8-2 demolition of Northampton in the fifth round of the FA Cup in 1970. The [...]

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London City could be the next British airport to fall into foreign hands as the shortlist of around six bidders includes only one UK company.
Construction group Balfour Beatty has teamed up with US bank Merrill Lynch to bid for the Docklands airport, which handled almost 2m passengers last year.
London City airport could fall [...]

A STAGGERING euro 4.3m has been agreed for a Limerick city residence, standing on approx. half-an-acre-easily an all-time record for a home the Mid-West.
‘Shelbourne’ situated on the much-sought after NCRd., and alongside the rear entrance to the Holy Rosary Church, is likely to be demolished by its new owner, and replaced with 18 apartments.
There was [...]

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The Information Commissioner’s Office is to informally investigate internet auction website eBay’s data practices after receiving a complaint from a privacy lobby group.
Privacy International, the London-based group, is concerned about websites that make it overly difficult for users to delete their accounts.
After researching the issue, it has identified eBay, Amazon and Friends Reunited [...]

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The armour-plated popemobile used by the late pope John Paul II during his 1982 visit to Britain has sold at auction for £37,000.
The pope used the 24-tonne converted truck when he toured Scotland, travelling to Bellahouston Park in Glasgow and Murrayfield in Edinburgh, conducting a mass for more than 300,000 people.
The six-wheeled, bomb-proof [...]