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.

One of the biggest-ever Irish sales of antique rugs goes under the hammer this week. The auction featuring 139 carpets features an early 18th Century French tapestry that could fetch up to €25,000.
The sale at James Adam in Dublin on Tuesday is drawn from the collection of Dublin-based international retailer Peter Linden.
“This one-off event will [...]

A 19′ Lapstrake wooden runabout is the largest item in the online auction for the campaign to raise money for the Belfast Bridge Fund, 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 eBay store, where donated items have been [...]

The Irish High Court says it will decide at a later date whether a former U2 stylist would be allowed to keep souvenirs from the rock group.
U2 – whose lead member is prominent in a worldwide campaign against poverty – sued Lola Cashman last year for the return of mementos she said had been given [...]

A rare Victorian Scotch is thought to be over 150 years old and is expected to fetch up to £10,000 at Bonhams Sale of Fine Wine, Port and Spirits in London.
The bottle`s label reads “Glenavon *** Special Liqueur Whisky Bottled by the Distillers”.
Research by the auctioneers shows Glenavon closed down in the 1850s, meaning that [...]

Bono testified Tuesday in an Irish High Court appeal how an ex-stylist stole and tried to sell U2 memorabilia – including his iconic Stetson cowboy hat.
”It’s our stuff, she has it, and a lot more beside,” Bono said of the fashion consultant, Lola Cashman. “We want our stuff back.”
Cashman, described by Bono as an eccentric [...]

Online auction site eBay.ie has announced the appointment of John McElligott as the new managing director.

Struggling furniture chain MFI was today given shareholder backing for the sale of its 200 stores for just £1.
More than 99% of shareholders voted in favour of the sale of its loss-making retail arm to private equity firm Merchant Equity Partners for the nominal fee.
The retail business has struggled from supply chain problems and made [...]

Press Release
The first set of 10 .mobi domain names will be made available via auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East domain conference in Hollywood, Florida, on October 27, 2006.
The 10 .mobi domains to be auctioned are “celebs,” “cheaptickets,” “flowers,” “fun,” “gossip,” “hot,” “laugh,” “party,” “stockquotes” and “wow.”
The dotMobi Premium Names list is a compilation of commonly [...]

A painting from a highly-acclaimed portrait series by Louis le Brocquy is expected to fetch the highest price at a major sale of post-war Irish art which goes on display today.
Study of a Head from Memory is estimated to reach up to €74,000 at the Sotheby’s inaugural auction of contemporary Irish works, art dealers believe. [...]

eBay is set to challenge Amazon and other online shopping malls with the UK launch of Ebay Express, a more regulated environment for professional merchants who want to sell goods at a fixed price.
Most of the goods sold on Ebay still involve the online auction process for which the American internet giant is best known. [...]