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• First Mount Congreve auction next week
  ON WEDNESDAY next in London, Christie’s, in association with Mealy’s, will hold the first of two auctions to dispose of art and antiques from Mount Congreve. The house, in Kilmeaden, County Waterford, is best-known for its world-renowned gardens, planted by the late Ambrose Congreve who died last year, aged 104.
  
  
  
  
  
• Kenny loops around lighthouse in trip back to his past
  IT WASN’T quite Obama in Moneygall territory, but Enda Kenny’s visit to west Clare had an undoubted piquancy.
  
  
  
• Pressure for arts boycott of Israel condemned
  TÁNAISTE AND Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore has criticised what he described as “unacceptable efforts to harass artists with a view to intimidating them from exercising their freedom of choice” in relation to engagement with Israel.
  
  
  
• Auctions
  Auction Results:May 15th Kerry Auction Rooms, Tralee, Co Kerry. An Aer Lingus menu for the airline’s “Golden Shamrock Service” on the flight that brought the Beatles to Ireland on Nov 7th, 1963 signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, €5,200 (€4,000–€6,000).
  
  
  
  
  
• A golden memento of Princess Margaret
  A BROOCH once owned by the late Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon and younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, is to be auctioned by Adam’s in Dublin next week.
  
  
  
• Time to play the art market?
  Like property, Irish art prices have fallen sharply. Is now a good time to buy, asksMICHAEL PARSONS
  
  
  
• Tralee wetlands centre to draw 70,000 extra visitors a year
  IT WAS weather for ducks and waders yesterday in Tralee – damp and suitable for the occasion of the official opening of a major wetlands centre in Co Kerry by Minister for Tourism Leo Varadkar.
  
  
  
  
  
• ACC gets court order on farm subsidy
  ACCBANK has secured a court order appointing a receiver over farm subsidy payments due to a couple this year and in the coming years following their failure to repay a €1.9 million judgment obtained by the bank against them.
  
  
  
  
  
• Soldier gets €76,900 for eye injuries
  THE PRESIDENT of the High Court has awarded €76,900 damages to an Army sergeant who suffered injuries to his eyes after a tyre on an armoured personnel vehicle exploded while he was examining it.
  
  
  
• Kenny on cliff edge as stability takes a wobble
  YOU HAVE to hand it to Enda. It takes courage to stand at the edge of a windswept cliff when your government is suffering a severe bout of pre-referendum wobble.