Wolfe Tone’s fireplace is a feature of Fonsie Mealy’s Chatsworth spring fine art sale in Castlecomer .

Tommy Barker on a Douglas home with three-floors of accommodation.

It may prove an omen that Cian O’Connor rides Good Luck in today’s Furusiyya Nations Cup at La Baule, France, but the Olympic bronze medallist believes the team has enough ability to create its own fortune.

Shane Breen was taking a lead from his horse’s name yesterday as he prepared for the first Chinese leg of the Global Champions Tour.

Sarah Ennis was "in shock" yesterday after achieving the biggest win of her career at Chatsworth Horse Trials in England.

Viewing gets underway in Castlecomer tomorrow (Oct 6) for the Chatsworth fine art and antique sale by Fonsie Mealy auctioneers on Tuesday (Oct 8) at 10am.

“Simply awesome,” was how Kildare-born Aoife Clark de scribed Fenyas Elegance last night, after the pair finished runners-up at Chatsworth Horse Trials in England in the mare’s first outing at three-star level.

WE love a success story don’t we, especially during chilly days and while we sit out a wintry economy.

Mary Leland enjoys a talk by Peregrine Cavendish — the Duke of Devonshire — on his family’s extensive collection

Acclaimed actress Anne-Marie Duff is to make a return to Channel 4’s 'Shameless' for the show’s last episode.

SHAMELESS — sometimes that is the only word to sum up the Dáil.

IT WAS a soft atmosphere at the cobbles this weekend — in weather thankfully; not fashion. As the rain threatened, the catwalks unleashed their own perfect storm of style for spring/summer 12.

THE Chatsworth Settlement Trust in Derbyshire is “loaning” the Leabhar Mac Cártaigh Riabhach for exhibition at the Glucksman Gallery in UCC.

I’VE NEVER met Deborah Cavendish, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, yet she has long been a hero of mine. Debo, as she is known to her friends, now a feisty 90, was the youngest Mitford sister.

A man has been arrested in connection with a security alert in west Belfast which police described as a hoax.

A British Army major who escaped a dissident republican murder bid when a booby trap bomb fell off his car without detonating is lucky to be alive, police said today.

A booby trap bomb was found under a soldier’s car in the North today.

THE real Chatsworth is in England, is the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, (who own Lismore Castle) and houses the world’s largest private art collection.

She was more likely to bake cakes than show her buns as dowdy Mrs Doyle in 'Father Ted', but now Pauline McLynn takes on a most unholy role in TV’s 'Shameless'.

A man was remanded in custody in the North today charged with the murder of a mother-of-one.

A man will appear in court today charged with the murder of a mother of one at a house party.

A COMMUTER train engineer sent a mobile phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into freight train in southern California last month, killing 25 people, federal investigators said.

Several more bodies remain in the wreckage of a crashed commuter train, in addition to the 18 confirmed deaths already announced, a Los Angeles County coroner’s official said today.

A CENTURIES-OLD battle over the River Blackwater could be settled after an offer of peace talks from the millionaire British aristocrat who claims extensive rights over its fishing grounds.

Marilyn Manson was convinced his 2001 Ozzfest concert in Denver, Colorado would be his last - because he feared locals who still blamed his music for the horrors of the Columbine High School massacre would be out to kill him.

From The Duchess of Devonshire’s Chatsworth.

From The Duchess of Devonshire’s Chatsworth.

Charles Manson's followers should never be freed from prison for the string of brutal murders they committed in 1969, the sister of murdered actress Sharon Tate said.

THE historic Book of Lismore was compiled at the Franciscan Monastery in Timoleague, and not in Waterford, as its title might indicate.

WHEN Chatsworth was launched in 2002, the townhouses in this mixed scheme were selling off the plans for €235,000.

IT’S surprising that, in the Celtic Tiger boom, a town as historic and pretty as Lismore isn’t swamped with holiday home developments.

A QUEEN ANNE house in north east Cork, most likely built by the 6th Duke of Devonshire, is new to the market this week.

YOUNG Event rider Dairine Kennedy saw victory slip from her grasp in the dying seconds of the feature two star class at the Isuzu International Horse Trials in Dartfield yesterday.

A remarkable collection of art and historical objects dating to Elizabethan England has begun a tour of the United States.

Up to 13 people were feared dead today by rescuers in Britain searching for a group of cockle pickers missing after they were trapped by rising tides.

WITH wind-driven flames threatening the densely populated San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, firefighters dug in yesterday for another brutal day of battling one of the most destructive and deadly wildfire seasons in Californian state history.

With wind-driven flames threatening the densely populated areas near Los Angeles, firefighters dug today for another brutal day battling one of the most destructive and deadly wildfire outbreaks in California history.

Tributes to Princess Margaret began pouring in within minutes of the announcement of her death today.