Contents from Reidy's Wine Vault, Cork, and Kilkenny's Black Cat for auction

Contents from popular now-closed watering holes are up for auction, writes Des O'Sullivan

The interior of Reidy's Wine Vault bar to be sold by Lynes and Lynes.

Against a background where the market for collectibles is performing strongly, contents from popular and now-closed watering holes will come up at sales by Aidan Foley and Lynes and Lynes next week. Reidy's Wine Vault in Cork and The Black Cat in Kilkenny are the venues whose contents feature in the auctions.

Aidan Foley will hold three days of online sales with antiques, silver, art, automobilia and pub memorabilia this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 6pm each day. Along with some contents from Kilkenny's Black Cat, there is art by Mabel Young, Carol Ann Waldron, Ivan Sutton, Markey Robinson and Sean Keating.