This property clicked with Tommy Barker while photographer Denis Scannell had the task of saying cheese.

The World War Il Tales-the Apple Spy by Terry Deary (A&C BLACK €6.30)

"The street is devastated, a legend has passed on."

Des O’Sullivan on some unusual lots at Sheppards three day sale in Durrow next week.

West Cork-based Australian painter and sculptor, John Kelly, is sailing for two weeks from Hobart, in Australia, across the Southern Ocean for a three-month art residency in the Antarctic. His work there will be “a direct painterly response to the unique, wild and beautiful Antarctic landscape.”

We have fought bravely and died brutally in wars ranging from the Napoleonic to the Boer to World War 11. The Fighting Irish is the story of our finest, says Richard Fitzpatrick

SIX weeks ago, on January 16., an 84-year-old Englishman set out on a raft, built here in La Gomera in the Canary Islands, to drift 2,800 miles across the Atlantic to Eleuthera Island in Bahamas, tracing the route upon which a ship’s 18-foot long jolly boat carried the survivors of the 41 crew of an English cargo vessel sunk by a German ship disguised as a merchantman (but then drawing back the deck-cowlings to reveal cannons and machine guns) during World War 11.

TRIBUTES poured in yesterday for Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella who died yesterday at the age of 54.

JIM Rogers, who was in Dublin this week, left the media and the business people he addressed in no doubt about how he saw the future of the United States.

Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger has expanded his empire by going into the film production business.