The new owner of Louis le Brocquy`s water-colour - Study of Francis Bacon - paid more than 10 times the minimum estimate for the work at an auction in London.
Speculation was mounting among the art world as to who paid €229,048 for the work - which was guided to fetch as little as €22,369 before [...]

The auction ends Thursday for a 19′ Lapstrake wooden runabout, the largest item in the online auction for the campaign to raise money for the Belfast Bridge Fund. The Fund was set up to pay for the 1921-style railings and lamp posts on the newly reconstructed footbridge in Belfast.
The campaign’s web site, www.BelfastBridgeFund.org, features an [...]

Over £43m worth of property and land in Northern Ireland has been sold during a major public auction.
The auction, held last Friday, attracted 350 bidders keen to snap up retail and office investments, industrial warehousing and residential development land.
Individual lot prices ranged from £280,000 for a retail unit in Larne to £8.5m for development land [...]

A major Irish sale of antique rugs is to go under the hammer today.
The auction of 139 vintage carpets includes an early 18th-century French tapestry that could fetch up to €25,000.
The collection at James Adam salerooms in Dublin is drawn from the stock of Dublin-based international retailer Peter Linden.
Mr Linden is downsizing his George’s Avenue, [...]

Sotheby’s annual sale of Irish art is for the first time looking at post-war and contemporary artists.
The sale takes place on Tuesday, 24 October, at Sotheby’s in London.