Dublin police are still trying to solve the riddle of the two men who entered the city’s sewerage system last Friday – and haven’t been seen since.
Newspaper reports speculate that the pair were planning everything from a raid on a local bank, the theft of rhino horns worth $60million or a terrorist attack on the nearby Dublin Castle.
The two men were spotted entering the sewers via a manhole late last Friday night.
Their strange movements were reported by witnesses to police who are now studying CCTV footage and have mounted searches of the drains.
Potential targets include the state solicitor’s office, a branch of Allied Irish Bank and the valuable rhino horn in a safe at the Chester Beatty Library.
Police did pursue the men after they were alerted to the incident but nobody was found and officers believe they may have escaped into the river Liffey.
Reports say a map belonging to the men was discovered in one of the tunnels.
Dublin City councillor Mannix Flynn, who represents the area, has raised concern over the security surrounding the valuable rhino horns in the past.
“If there was a criminal intent, the horns may have been the target,” he told the Irish Independent.
“The biggest risk in that area is the Chester Beatty because it has rhino horns worth around €50m.
“They put them out of circulation and put them down into the ground because there was an attempt to get at them.
“I raised that risk element with them. I was concerned that we have the rarest collection and we didn’t seem to be aware that there was a high-scale risk of theft. That is the most obvious target.”
The Chester Beatty Library houses one of the world’s largest collections of carved rhinoceros horn cups.
An Irish gang has been blamed for a series of thefts of rhino horns from museums across Europe in the last year.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.peterson | Aug 12, 2012, 06:10 PM EDT
That sure beats sending them to prison !!
TayandCake | Aug 07, 2012, 04:47 PM EDT
Sounds like something outta Batman, Bane probably.
bogsidebunny | Aug 07, 2012, 08:59 AM EDT
An Irish gang has been blamed for a series of thefts of rhino horns from museums across Europe in the last year. They forgot to add "a criminal gang from an extended North Dublin/Limerick family"
IrelandNorth | Aug 07, 2012, 06:16 AM EDT
"... two men who entered the city's sewerage system ... and haven't been seen since." A critical mass of honourable citizens may have flushed the jacks simultaneously, and the suir-rat rhino-horn heisters were flushed out to sea. My own bets are that they were Dublin City Council (DCC) workers mending the suirs, but since DCC workers are such a rare appearance due to Local Government cut backs, citizens were trautmatised by such an apparition of Ballinspittal proportions. Anyone seeing such a rare occasion are advised to record it for posterity on their phonecams to show grand children what full employment used to look like in the good old days.
billie061 | Aug 06, 2012, 05:35 PM EDT
Gosh now we know where the Quinn lads are hiding, seal all manholes.
aloistmartin | Aug 06, 2012, 04:37 PM EDT
Down the Big Hole, with a Gun, the New Testament and the Dream of a United Irish Republic ~~
Brolaur | Aug 06, 2012, 01:24 PM EDT
If they are in the Liffey, don't worry. They're surely dead by now. Sewers are no place to go with a horn!!
Silling | Aug 06, 2012, 11:05 AM EDT
I was in a Dublin pub on friday and heard two men say they would eat sewage before they'd emigrate to New Zealand.