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Fri 03 Mar 2010Suspended terms for role in treasures theft
TWO DUBLIN men have received suspended jail sentences for their role in the robbery of priceless “national treasures”, now in the National Museum, which they unwittingly dumped in a rubbish bin.
Gardaí had to place a protection order on rubbish dumped outside flats in Dublin and go through the contents of a skip to retrieve the 4,000-year-old artefacts, a lunula and two gold discs, Roscommon Circuit Court heard.
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