A dispute between members of a family whose firm sells and makes jewellery including the world-famous Claddagh rings has been adjourned for mediation talks.

No one knows a city like a local. So who better to give the lowdown on Galway than Síle Seoige. She describes her perfect day in the county to Ciara McDonnell.

In this week’s column, Kehlan Kirwan looks at premium products and how they go about differentiating themselves in the marketplace.

More than €25m of property was sold at the latest large-scale public auction held by Allsop Space in Dublin yesterday. A total of 131 lots out of more than 180 properties for sale went under the hammer for a combined total of €25.61m.

Cork’s North Main Street Shopping Centre — minus anchor unit Dunnes Stores, and all developed by Owen O’Callaghan in the 1980s with a multi-storey car-park — is to be sold off by public auction later this month, with a guide price of €750,000-850,000.