Antique jewellery dealers go online for Insta gratification

Mayo-based Nigel O’Reilly is first Irish jewellery designer to sell at Sotheby’s New York

The rules of engagement rings: know your diamond’s cut and carat

A small, beautiful single carat diamond is much better than lots of tiny little diamonds

Rare Art Deco clock and 19th-century Persian silk tapestries at Irish antique dealers’ fair

Clock with face made from shark skin to be exhibited at RDS fair

This Valentine’s Day show your love with these vintage tokens

Gifts with meaning, history and thought are an alternative to flowers and chocolates

Go green for Christmas with antique gifts

These treasured items are non-disposable and come with something money cannot buy – a past and provenance

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Corvias chief to refurbish Capard House after buying it for €4m

Property mogul John Picerne plans to refurbish Laois estate after buying it last year

Top house sales of 2015

This was the year when number 1 Sorrento Terrace – Dublin’s most expensive house – finally found a buyer, and Courtown Demesne was picked up by developer Luke Comer

Chinese vases fetch a record €560,000 at Laois auction

Price is the highest ever paid at auction in Ireland for Chinese porcelain

Irish fashion makes the cut at start of President’s state visit

Sabina Higgins’s wardrobe for the visit was nearly all bought from about a dozen Irish designers

€755,000 for adjoining buildings