A man jailed for damaging a Claude Monet painting estimated to be worth €10m has lost an appeal against conviction.

Des O’Sullivan says an upsurge in interest at some sales might indicate a change in Irish buying patterns.

Des O’Sullivan looks at 20th century Irish art at de Vere’s auction.

Des O’Sullivan looks at a number of different art works on offer through three auction houses in the capital.

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

A Dublin man accused of damaging two paintings at the Shelbourne hotel earlier this year has been acquitted of those charges, by direction of the trial judge.

A man on trial for allegedly putting his fist through a Monet painting accused gardaí of trying to get a false confession, a jury has heard.

A banqueting manager at the Shelbourne Hotel said he noticed threads hanging from a painting in one of their function rooms and took a picture of the damage on his phone.

Two New Zealand tourists have described how they saw a man’s fist go through a Monet painting estimated to be worth €10m in the National Gallery two years ago.

Two New Zealand tourists have described how they saw a man’s fist go through a Monet painting estimated to be worth €10m in the National Gallery two years ago.

A man has gone on trial accused of damaging a €10m Monet painting in the National Gallery and damaging two paintings in the Shelbourne Hotel.

FRESH from a very well attending viewing in Skibbereen last weekend Morgan O’Driscoll’s Dublin viewing of Irish art gets underway at the RDS at 11 am today.

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THE pair of George IV specimen marble top tables for €195,000 at the IADA fair at the RDS in Dublin this weekend capture a current antique market moment.

There was strong interest in the sale of the Anglo Irish Bank art collection with work by some artists going for considerably more than pre-auction estimates.

Thousands of euro worth of paintings that once hung on the walls of Anglo Irish Bank will be auctioned later.

Séamus Heaney was a great friend of my parents Robin and Dorothy Walker.

ANGLO Irish Bank had a talent for investment that went south, and its art collection will almost certainly bring in less than it cost to purchase in the first instance.

COLLECTORS never know what they might come across at a house sale.

Anglo Irish Bank’s corporate art collection to be sold at auction next month, has been valued at just €150,000 — a drop in the ocean compared to €25bn it cost the State to bail out the failed bank.

Jack B Yeats, Leo Whelan, Roderic O’Conor, Tony O’Malley, Patrick Scott, Harry Kernoff and Gerald Dillon are among a roll call of leading Irish artists whose work will feature at Whyte’s sale of Irish and British art at the RDS in Dublin next Monday (Oct 1) at 6pm.

Irish human rights activists detained by Israeli authorities as they tried to break the naval blockade on Gaza will arrive home over the next two days.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore was tonight facing demands to intervene over the Israeli interception of an Irish boat trying to break the naval blockade on Gaza.

HUMAN rights activists trying to break the Gaza blockade have vowed to stop Israeli forces from boarding their ship.

Human rights activists trying to break the Gaza blockade have vowed to stop Israeli forces from boarding their ship.

The Irish ship that will make up part of a humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza is due to leave Irish shores this week.

IRELAND will press Israel to let activists bring humanitarian goods into Gaza, Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore has said.

Ireland will press Israel to let activists bring humanitarian goods into Gaza, Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore has said.

SMALL is beautiful.

“WATCH those paintings, I want them back,” shouted Conrad Gallagher as a court official walked past with one of the abstract pieces.

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher has been found not guilty of theft by a jury of six men and women at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a six-day trial.

A solicitor has told the Conrad Gallagher trial that the contract under which the Fitzwilliam Hotel purchased paintings from him was "unambiguous" but "untidy".

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher was "far from insolvent" and his business was "thriving" when he moved his restaurant Peacock Alley to Fitzwilliam Hotel, Dublin Circuit Criminal has heard.

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher, accused of stealing three paintings from the Fitzwilliam Hotel, told gardaí he knew they belonged to the hotel and he should not have sold them, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A few days after selling three paintings he allegedly stole from the Fitzwilliam Hotel, celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher told its general manager they had been taken from him by 'rough people', Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher was insolvent before he moved his restaurant to the Fitzwilliam Hotel, a jury has been told at the start of his trial for allegedly stealing three paintings.

CELEBRITY chef Conrad Gallagher is due to be released from Cloverhill Prison today as he awaits trial on criminal charges of stealing valuable paintings from his own restaurant.