Dance of Time II , which Oliver Gormley bought from the Dalí Universe in Switzerland, is the most expensive piece for sale at Castlemartyr Resort, at €1.125 million. Photograph: Patrick Browne
Robin O’Donnell has been running antique fairs for the past 35 years through his business, Hibernian Antique Fairs. “Our fairs cater for many of Ireland’s former antique shops and antique dealers, and several of our regular dealers are members of the Irish Antique Dealers Association,” he says. The Lismore Opera Festival Antique Fair, which takes places this Saturday and Sunday in the GAA Hall on Tallow Road, Lismore, Co Waterford, is one of the smaller antiques fairs run by O’Donnell. It is held to coincide with the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, whose festival hub is in Lismore Castle, and provides a pleasant distraction for opera goers before they head off to recitals in historic homes and concerts in Dromore Yard in Lismore.