Christie’s auction house is selling Study For Portrait II next month, when the work is expected to fetch at least £12 million.
Being sold by a private collector, and appearing in public for the first time, it is one of the most famous of the 50-plus papal portraits painted by Bacon, who was obsessed by Velazquez’s [...]

Six terrace tickets for the Ireland England clash have already been bought on eBay for the asking price of almost €350 each, a huge mark-up on the €30 normal cost.

According to data released by IE Internet, almost two thirds of all email received in this country (62.13pc) last month was spam. This is the highest level ever recorded in Ireland.
Figures for the final month of the year tend to be slightly skewed by the fact that many businesses are closed for the Christmas [...]