With estimates from €50 to €22,000, Adams Sunday Interiors auction at 11.30 am in Dublin tomorrow offers everything from fine antique furniture to equestrian portraits and even a 1914 hat box by Louis Vuitton.

Des O’Sullivan says a 1936 oil by Jack B Yeats, ‘Hearing The Nightingale’, is exciting featured lot.

ANTIQUES FAIRS

Slowly, the Irish art market is climbing out of recession.

700 lots on offer, Des O’Driscoll reports

A lock of Michael Collins’ hair has been withdrawn from the market on the eve of its controversial auction.

A decorative collection of arts and furnishings from Irish country houses have transformed Slane Castle into a set from a period drama.

The Bank of Ireland is to sell off more than 150 of its prized paintings and sculptures as hard-pressed taxpayers are hit with a €15bn plan to cut services and raise taxes.

A HUMOUROUS painting paying homage to the best-known pubs around Dublin in the 1940s will be the toast of an auction house when it goes under the hammer this week.

Part of a rediscovered private art collection including unseen paintings by Jack B Yeats and Louis le Brocquy will be auctioned tonight.

A US Navy ship has picked up signals from the flight data recorders of an Indonesian plane that crashed into the sea on New Year’s Day with 102 people onboard, the US Embassy said today.

INDONESIA’S transportation minister yesterday said rescuers had not found the wreckage of a missing passenger jetliner, despite earlier statements from aviation and police officials that it had been located.

Rescuers today found the smouldering wreckage of an Indonesian plane that crashed into mountains during a storm killing at least 90 people.

A LIMERICK toddler has just returned from the United States where he made some very special new friends.

THE Miss International Queen contestants looked more feminine than many women could dream of, even though they were all born boys.