A rare penny-farthing bicycle is among the 460 lots on offer at the annual vintage auction at O’Donovan’s of Newcastlewest at 10am next Saturday. In excellent condition, it dates from c1880 and is estimated at €600-€1,200. There is a first edition of the 1865 Memories of Adare Manor by Caroline, Countess Dunraven (€1,000-€1,800) as well as period furniture and jewellery.

I love the west coast of Ireland. I’ve written here before about the south-west and all the things that capture me every time I go there. 

Kevin Markham on the statutes, structures, and settings which focuses a golfer’s mind and lasts long in the memory.

A total of 341 vehicles were caught speeding on National Slow Down Day, gardaí have revealed.

Gardaí have detected 191 people speeding today, which is National Slow Down Day.

At the height of summer comes this art and antiques auction, writes Des O’Sullivan.    

Des O’Sullivan says two post-summer auctions have star quality and should attract the glitterati.

The sister of Thomas Keaney, who was killed by a single punch in Australia, has spoken of how her family continue to struggle to cope with the loss.

Over €9m of property changed hands yesterday at the first ever all-day auction outside of Dublin.

Waves up to 10m high, driven by winds approaching hurricane strength, were bearing down on south and west coastal areas overnight, threatening to compound the devastation of recent days.

Six cars were washed out to sea at Cleggan in west Co Galway in one of the worst storms to hit the west in years.

Police in Australia have indicated that charges in relation to the death of a Galway man in Perth may be stepped up.

A young Irishman who had planned to travel home to his family for Christmas has died in Australia two weeks after being assaulted on a night out.

A 23-year-old Galway man has died after an alleged assault in Australia two weeks ago.

Launch of Ireland’s first ‘edible’ Économusée

GOING on a weekend break with a surfer, a toddler and a bump takes a special kind of optimism.

TWO things are hard to find in Connemara. The first is a reliable weather forecast.

A middle-aged woman drowned in the sea off Connemara today.

’TIS only small, but the location is perfectly formed.

THE Taoiseach has not ruled out a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty and said the Government will consider it “in due course”.

AN Irish priest who admitted sexually abusing altar boys in Britain faces up to 40 years in prison.

WILL the reinvigorated ‘Connemara 4’ phenomenon drive the €400,000 guide price of this Galway cottage through its quaint thatched roof?