AN eighteenth century Letterkenny Corps shoulder belt plate was sold for 1,200 euro at an auction of historical artefacts in Dublin this week.
The 7cm X 4.8cm brass plate was sold at James Adam & Sons and Mealy’s Auctioneers Independence auction of more than 400 lots comprising previously unseen documents of the utmost historical importance charting [...]

Irish regulators have agreed a number of measures to further open up the country’s power market.
Ireland has finally decided to do away with its cumbersome system of virtual power plant auctions and revenue regulation, by requiring the state-owned incumbent, ESB, to sell off many of its generation assets. Furthermore, Irish regulators have announced that no [...]

26 to 30 April
Hundreds of assets from the world’s oldest international rugby stadium, Lansdowne Road, are to be sold by online auction.
Following the approval of planning permission in March 2007 to build a new stadium on the site of Lansdowne Road, the Irish Rugby Football Union has announced that hundreds of items of memorabilia and [...]

A painting by Irish artist Louis Le Brocquy, titled ‘Summer Fruit – Apple, Lemon and Orange’, is expected to fetch over 140,000 Euro at Dolan’s Art Auction on Monday 30 April in the Marriott Hotel, Galway.
More than 200 works by some of Ireland’s top artists, including important works by Jack B Yeats, John Shinnors, Cecil [...]

Internet retailer Amazon.com will employ 450 people at its new Irish support center, which will help customers on its British and French Web sites, the online auctioneer said Monday.
“As our business has grown, and as we have expanded the categories of products we offer, we need to expand our customer service support as well,” said [...]

Whitbread PLC has entered the 1 bln eur bid battle for Jurys Inns, the Irish hotel chain put up for auction last year, reports the Sunday Times.
The newspaper says other contenders for the business include private-equity firm Permira and property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz.
Whitbread, owner of the Premier Travel Inn hotel chain, would have no problem [...]

The National Museum of Ireland has bought a letter written by Pádraic Pearse just before his execution.
Dated 2 May 1916, the letter is addressed to the then Commanding Officer of British Forces in Ireland, General John Maxwell.
The director of the National Museum, Dr Pat Wallace, said the letter had been bought for the museum by [...]

ALMOST 85,000 euro is being sought for five paintings of Donegal which will be offered for sale at auction at the end of the month.
The oil paintings will be auctioned at Whyte’s Sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin on Monday April 30.
One painting of Marble Hill Strand, by Frank McKelvey, has been valued at [...]

NEIGHBOURING farmers were never in the shake-up for a 52-acre farm near Kinsale, Co Cork which was sold at auction recently.
The agents, Twomey Crowley Auctioneers from Bandon, had put a guide price of €1.5m on the farm but they failed to realise it at auction.
The holding was initially offered for sale in two lots. A [...]

FARMERS hungry for extra land have driven the conacre market to close weeks before normal.
With the Single Farm Payment deadline of May 4 still three weeks away, it appears much of the land available for letting has already been snapped up.
Farmers with unused entitlements have to activate them this year or lose them to the [...]

Online auction room fraud is on the rise, with websites such as eBay and Amazon being targeted because of their large number of users.
Online auction room fraud is on the rise, with websites such as eBay and Amazon being targeted because of their large number of users.
A senior garda and a representative of eBay will [...]

The Irish Rugby Foorball Union announced today that hundreds of assets from the world’s oldest International Rugby Stadium are to be sold by online auction.
The auction will take place between 26th and 30th April 2007.
The ground’s rugby history spans nearly 130 years to the first international rugby match that took place there against [...]

Rubble from the demolition of the Maze Prison is being sold on internet auction site eBay – just days after Government officials tried to stop it.
But the five bits of concrete up for sale may be suspect: the seller claims they are from an H-Block that, according to the Government, is still standing.
On the UK [...]

U2 memorabilia – including a pair of Bono’s trademark shades – will go on display in Dublin today.
Instruments, clothes and jewellery belonging to Ireland`s most famous sons will sit alongside items linked to some of the best known names in rock music at the city`s Clarence Hotel.
The exhibition comes ahead of the Icons of Music [...]

ENTITLEMENT trading has taken off in earnest this year with rights easily making prices of three to four times their value.
Well-known auctioneer Meath-based auctioneer Helen McGee said she has a strong trade this year and is dealing with entitlement amounts from anywhere between 50 and 1,500 units.
“We having an extremely busy entitlement trade this year,” [...]