Des O’Sullivan casts an eye over Morgan O’Driscoll’s online art sale BISHOP Willie Walsh of Killaloe is generally considered by liberals in Ireland to be one of the good guys.

Maureen O’Hara’s legacy as one of the most famous stars of Hollywood’s golden era has been further cemented, after an auction of the late actress’s personal belongings sold for almost €420,000.

IT’S AUCTION season — time to bag a bargain — if you have a few million to spare that is.

Wanted: one caring owner for a cherry-red 1954 Ferrari racer; current proprietorship heavily contested.

A rare Aston Martin car once owned by actor Sir Peter Ustinov is up for auction and could fetch more than 1 million.

The organisers of Goodwood’s popular Festival of Speed have announced that the meeting will be held on June 25-28.

From the street to the world stage — an Irish graffiti artist has “the world at his feet” after one of his dynamic paintings sold at auction for more than €100,000.

DEALERS OLD AND NEW

Manly knee-slaps rock the polite simmer of exchange in the living-room....“I nailed that one coming around a corner!”

A $38.1 million (€29.4m) Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta led the annual parade of classic car auctions in California to a record tally of almost $400m (€308.7m).

A RARE Ferrari, representing a key early stage in the history of the sports car manufacturer, has sold at auction for €13.4 million.

A work by one of Ireland’s most sought-after artists is to be sold at auction in London.

The last remaining archive of work by Christy Brown has been bought in London by the National Library of Ireland and the Little Museum of Dublin for €45,000.

A Harley-Davidson motorbike that briefly belonged to Pope Francis was sold to a mystery European buyer for €210,000 at a high-profile auction in Paris.

A rare 1960s Ferrari convertible has sold in California for a record $27.5m (€20m).

Jack Yeats’ pen and ink drawing The Sack of Baltimore dating from 1890/91 at Whyte’s Irish art sale at the RDS next Monday (May 27).

COLLECTORS from all corners of Ireland will converge on Limerick this weekend.

Bonhams auction house in New York has sold an original ticket to the 1912 launch of the Titanic and a dinner menu from the ill-fated ocean liner, plus a telegraph that read: “We have struck an iceberg.”

Important Irish artist’s painting at Bonhams sale, Des O’Sullivan reports

Galway Fisherfolk by Augustus John from the Elizabeth Taylor art collection made £5,625 at Christie’s in London on Wednesday.

An acoustic guitar and an Ivor Novello songwriting award are among the items of John Lennon memorabilia being auctioned in the UK today.

Music legend Eric Clapton is to sell off part of his extensive guitar collection – including one he played on stage with Cream – to raise hundreds of thousands for his rehab clinic.

JOHN LENNON’s handwritten lyrics to the Beatles song I’m Only Sleeping will go on sale next month, Bonhams auctioneers said.

A BEJEWELLED white glove Michael Jackson tossed to an Australian fan more than a decade ago has sold at auction for AUS$57,600 (€34,275).

A bejewelled white glove Michael Jackson tossed to an Australian fan more than a decade ago has sold at auction for Aus$57,600 (€34,200).

A RARE Bugatti car which was found in a garage after the death of its owner went on show to the media yesterday before it is sold at auction.

IT WAS going, going, Goon yesterday as the auctioneer’s hammer fell on Spike Milligan’s personal possessions, raising tens of thousands of pounds.

Celebrity spoon-bender Uri Geller went to the Savoy Hotel auction today – and is bidding for 360 spoons.

John Lennon’s original draft of the lyrics to the Beatles’ classic A Day in The Life went on sale today, the 39th anniversary of the date Lennon was inspired to compose the song after reading his morning newspaper.

The original lyrics of John Lennon’s song Give Peace A Chance are going up for sale.

BIDDERS went bananas yesterday, paying €21,000 for paintings by a chimpanzee named Congo which were sold alongside works by Renoir and Andy Warhol.

THE star lot in a collection of rare artefacts from the RMS Titanic failed to sell in auction yesterday.

A COLLECTION of personal letters, photographs and other items documenting the tragic life of the “fifth Beatle” Stuart Sutcliffe was unveiled yesterday.