A favourite haunt of artists, Achill Island sets the scene for an auction on Sunday. Des O’Sullivan reports.

You can view Morgan O'Driscoll's sale online or in person, writes Des O'Sullivan.

Shane Daly Butz is determined to use the World University Games as a spring board to kick start his football career.

Goals from James Dolan and Joe Halligan did the trick in Mullingar as Westmeath battled through to Round 3 of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers.

Des O’Sullivan previews the Irish art on offer at upcoming Dublin and London sales

The furnishings in Pairc Ui Rinn won’t rival Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano for comfort anytime soon, but no-one was forced to the edge of their seats Saturday night in Cork as the hosts romped to a 21-point Munster SFC semi final victory over Limerick.

Des O’Sullivan previews Whyte’s sale which features a number of leading names from the Irish art world

Limerick produced the first shock of the Championship at Semple Stadium with a remarkable seven-point defeat of Tipperary.

The sale of 400 lots in Connemara tomorrow promises to be a crowd-puller, says Des O’Sullivan.

Cork will meet Clare in the McGrath Cup final this Saturday after comfortably dismissing Limerick in today’s penultimate round clash at a venue which had neither a stand nor a scoreboard.

The last four champions are still in the race for the Limerick senior football championship title.

Mayo 5-19 Limerick 3-7

2017 footballer of the year Andy Moran added two goals as a sub.

IT’S not nostalgia. The Yellow River, a collaborative project between poet Gerard Smyth and painter Seán McSweeney, delves deep into the pair’s memories of Co Meath, but Smyth, selecting words with the care to be expected of a poet, balks slightly at “nostalgic”.

A catalogue of missed chances allowed Wexford to hold on for their first championship win in two years, and end Limerick’s summer in the process.

Allianz FL Division 4

Des O’Sullivan notices some low estimates on pieces of art by famous Irish artists in Whyte’s online-only auction.

Antrim 0-9 Limerick 2-6: They came, they saw, they conquered — that was Limerick footballers who tasted victory, at Corrigan Park in Belfast on Saturday, for the first time since April 2015, when they carved out a league win over Louth, in Drogheda.

The influence of Cezanne can be clearly seen in Roderic O’Conor’s Still Life with Apples on a White Cloth. 

Champions Newcastle West beat Ballysteen 0-8 to 1-3 in the second round of Limerick senior football championship.

Champions Newcastle West had to find a late equaliser in their round one tie against Monaleen in the Limerick SFC.

Kildare 1-11 Limerick 1-10: Kildare recorded their fourth successive win in Division 3 at St Conleths Park yesterday to put them firmly on course for an immediate return to Division 2, but manager Cian O’Neill was left deeply unimpressed by their performance.

Limerick 0-11 Clare 1-14: When the sides met in last year’s National Football League, Limerick pulled themselves out of a four-game losing streak to kickstart an unlikely Division Three survival with a double-scores victory. Sadly for them, history did not repeat itself yesterday as they were brushed aside far more comprehensively by Clare than the final margin of six points suggests.

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

Limerick FC 1 Cork City 2: Cork City came from behind against Limerick FC to claimed their fourth successive National U19 title at the Markets Field last night.

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

Des O’Sullivan reports on a three day flurry of art and antique events around the country this bank holiday.

Des O’Sullivan discusses the sale of the lifetime’s treasure trove of artists Nancy Wynne-Jones and Conor Fallon.

Limerick FC 1 Avondale United 0: A last-minute Shane Tracy penalty saw Martin Russell’s Limerick capture the Munster Senior Cup as they edged Avondale United 1-0 at a rain-soaked Askeaton yesterday.

JOHN P Quinlan is from Macroom, and founded the Vangard Gallery in Cork in 1991. He is in the midst of a nine-month stint as guest curator at Triskel in Cork.

Gardaí are still officially treating as “suspicious” the death of a 36-year-old man in Co Cork who dabbled in drugs, but it is likely to be only a matter of time before they upgrade the case to a murder inquiry.

Islands, a magnificent oil on board by Patrick Collins (1911-1994) is a feature lot at Morgan O’Driscoll’s art auction at the RDS on September 15 at 6pm. 

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.

In 2013 there were buyers available, but a shortage of work at the top end of the market, writes Des O’Sullivan.