U2 rocker The Edge is auctioning off his beloved 1975 Gibson Les Paul guitar to raise cash for the musicians charity he co-founded to help those struggling to come to terms with Hurricane Katrina.
The instrument has featured on most of U2’s albums and has been the guitarist’s favourite axe on the road – but The [...]

The property with the most obvious development potential is located beside the beautiful village of Glandore.
The 54-acre non-residential farm is in the townland of Drombeg, which runs close to the village.
The farm was described by Mr O’Leary as generally being “good quality farmland”, though it has a few acres of rough grazing.
However, the real value [...]

A CO Limerick farm which was withdrawn from auction two weeks ago has been sold in recent days for €1.05m.
The 43ac residential farm at Clorane, Kildimo was withdrawn after just a few bids on March 9. At that time, it was making €940,000 but a few days later, a new bidder emerged.
Auctioneer Tom Crosse, who [...]

One of the medals awarded to a player in Roscommon’s first All-Ireland Football title has fetched €20,000 at auction.
The 9ct GAA celtic cross style medal was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at auction in Dublin this afternoon.
The 1943 All-Ireland win was the first of a two in a row for the County team which [...]

A GROWING number of farmers are lining up to leverage the value of their land and re-route the proceeds into “off-farm” investments.
Off-farm investment is a growing sector in Ireland. An increasing number of farmers are choosing to invest in non-farm related projects (in particular in commercial property sydicates) by using the massively increased value locked [...]

A 125AC residential Monaghan farm was withdrawn from auction unsold on Wednesday.
There was just one bid of €1m for a 62ac section of the farm at Tullynamalra, Castleblayney.
Auctioneer Connell Nugent from selling agents EP Nugent said there were no offers for the entire 125ac farm and no offers on the second 62ac block.
Although there was [...]

A 147AC non-residential farm in Kilkenny is already attracting considerable interest from local farmers, although it will not go under the hammer until April 13.
The farm at Grange and Ballilogue, The Rower has extensive road and river frontage and will be offered for sale in a number of lots.
The biggest portion of the farm consists [...]

A 206AC Limerick dairy farm was sold after auction on Friday evening for €5.5m.
Auctioneer Basil Ruttle was right on the money when he set a guide price of €5.5m for the farm at Coolballyshane, Croagh but it wasn’t until after the auction that this price was achieved.
The farm, which included a milk quota of 43,746gal, [...]

The desk of former Enron Corp. founder and chief executive officer Ken Lay is up for sale on eBay Inc..
The Houston-based charity Saving Animals Across Borders is also auctioning the desk that Jeffrey Skilling and Richard Kinder used when they were presidents of the now-defunct energy company.
Lay and Skilling, who also served as CEO, were [...]

Ebay.ie has announced it has over 500,000 registered users in Ireland, representing 58%of all Irish internet users, and 16% of the over 18 population of Ireland.
eBay.ie was launched in June 2005 and together with its online payment system, PayPal, employs 1,200 Irish staff at its Blanchardstown offices in Dublin.
eBay Ireland’s managing director John McElligott told [...]

Funda.ie is the new property search engine of the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute (IAVI). Funda.ie will offer properties from the 700 member agencies of the IAVI in addition to non-IAVI agencies. Its meta-search index of Irish property websites allows it to offer more comprehensive coverage of the property market than other property [...]