Secret letters from Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest have been pulled from a controversial auction sale.

AN auction in aid of conservation work on Cork’s iconic, St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, includes a limited edition print by Pablo Picasso, an Arcadian painting by William Irving, rare items of Cork and Limerick silver and a bottle of Chateau Petrus donated and signed by Michael Flatley.

A tiny jade seal with a catalogue price of €4,000-€6,000 sold to a Chinese internet bidder for an unprecedented €630,000 — 157 times its guide price — at a Co Laois auction.