Heirlooms go under hammer after family feud

The contents of one of the few big houses of Ulster still in family ownership went under the auctioneer’s hammer today after the resolution of a bitter feud among siblings.

A two-day sale of the heirlooms of the Earls of Kilmorey began in the family home, Mourne Park, outside Kilkeel in the foothills of Co Down’s Mountains of Mourne.