BEFORE Art Deco mesmerised a generation of collectors in the 1970s and ’80s, the design period of Arts & Crafts was the last style group that purist antique dealers would acknowledge as properly antique.

The Bank Holiday house contents auction at Costelloe Lodge, Connemara at noon on May 6 by Dolan’s, is now on view.

With award-winning gardens and a tennis court, this Rochestown Road, Cork, property ticks all the right boxes, says Tommy Barker

Tens of thousands of Irishmen who gave their lives fighting for Britain during the First World War were honoured by the Queen at a Dublin commemoration steeped in symbolism.