The annual Members Exhibition now underway at the Lavit Gallery in Cork features 92 works from 72 artists.The exhibition runs until March 7.

Aileen Lee sits down with artist Valerie Walsh Jolley.

Art, antiques and jewellery to draw the crowds, says Des O’Sullivan

Des O'Driscoll shares the latest news from the entertainment world.

Two upcoming auctions in Cork offer plenty of interest for collectors, writes Des O’Sullivan.

Culture Night takes place today, with a feast of free offerings all over the country. Ellie O’Byrne selects some of the highlights

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The seats said ‘Mr and Mr’ and were indicated on Cupid’s arrows when the fashion designer, Don O’Neill, married fiancé Pascal Guellermie in front of Ballyheigue Castle, Co Kerry, on the edge of the Atlantic this weekend.

Some of Ireland’s top artists have painted hares for an auction in aid of the Jack and Jill Foundation, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Singers Sinéad O’Connor and Christy Moore, writers Colm Tóibín and Edna O’Brien, actor Cillian Murphy, and artist Pauline Bewick are among leading figures in Irish music, literature, and the arts advocating for the abolition of the eighth amendment to the Constitution, which they say has “prevented our doctors and our legislators from providing proper care to women”.

Whatever you want, somehow, it will just appear before your eyes in a countryside haven of rest.

Esther McCarthy takes the family off for an impressive weekend of food and fun in the Hideaway of the Year for 2014.

A PORTRAIT of Daniel O’Connell which was at the Cork and County Club for many years is among many brimful of interest lots at Fonsie Mealy’s sale in Castlecomer May 20 at 10.30am.

Whyte’s British and Irish art sale at the RDS, Dublin, features 216 lots.

To keep an arts festival going in some of the toughest economic conditions this country has ever witnessed is an achievement in itself.

MUSIC NEWS: In recent years, Morrissey has been battered by ill-health and dogged by lack of record company support, but his forthcoming autobiography is still the most eagerly anticipated rock book in years.

Having moved from Montrose to Marconi House, Pat Kenny is sure to be settling in nicely to his new studio at Newstalk.

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

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.

The contents of four Dublin houses will offer a wide range of items, including rare collectibles, writes Des O’Sullivan.

THE last time an original work by Sean Scully was sold at auction in Ireland was in 2008, according to Morgan O’Driscoll.

Andy Warhol’s unique screenprint ‘Martha Graham, Letter to the World (The Kick) 1986’, estimated at €10,000-€14,000, is one of the most expensive lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s art sale at the Radisson Hotel, Little Island, Cork next Monday at 6.30pm.

TEACUPS clicked at the cafe in Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery at a breakfast in honour of caretaker Joe Murphy, who is retiring after 25 years of service.

HOW you do your doodle may say more about you than any personality test and celebrities are no less prone to doodling than anyone else.

THE dramatic crash of the US Airways plane into the Hudson River last week appears to be depicted in a new painting by renowned artist Pauline Bewick which was created last December, weeks before the event.