Ireland

BROADCASTER GEORGE Hook has been granted judgment against Tribune Newspapers plc in his damages claim for defamation of character in a Sunday Tribunearticle published last October.

Sunday (April 3rd): International Autograph Auctions Ltd, Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow. A letter, dated and signed in 1947 by Princess (now Queen) Elizabeth sent to the Countess of Wicklow in Gorey, Co Wexford £390 (£200-£300).

SPORTING prints, especially of horses, are still a familiar and comforting sight on the walls of country houses and hotels throughout Ireland. English auctioneer Dreweatts is holding an important sale of sporting prints at its Donnington Priory saleroom in Berkshire on April 20th.

A SIGNIFICANT number of paintings sold at Adam?s first big art auction of 2011 were bought by Irish residents overseas. At the auction in Dublin on Thursday night there was strong bidding online and via telephone from Irish bidders living in Britain and the United States.

Stones from the Giant?s Causeway and a copy of Emmet?s Proclamation are included in an auction next week

POLICE investigating the murder of PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr last night arrested a man in his thirties in connection with his death.

THE IRISH Wildlife Trust (IWT) has received a number of reports of illegal hedge cutting during the nesting season, which is under way.

HUNDREDS OF extra gardaí are to be drafted into Waterford at the end of June to help police the Tall Ships festival, when up to 500,000 visitors are expected to descend on the city.

A CO Monaghan-based heritage group has appealed for the return of missing hands, arms, feet, angel?s wings and other items of sculpture that have, over the last half century, been removed from an 18th-century temple at Dartrey.

A GROUNDBREAKING medical device for non-invasive treatment of lung cancer is to undergo clinical trials at University College Cork.