2nd December 2011, 07:35 PM
Here's another example of the Irish legislative body going softly softly.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/l...66469.html
It was quite a well publicised story, a BA gold hoard kept in a safe by some pharmacists in Roscommon that was stolen, recovered and then put on display in the National Museum. The thing about the story that is never mentioned is that the family had been breaking the law. All artefacts discovered since 1926 are automatically the property of the Irish State. That stuff should have been handed in as soon as it was found, and should never have been in that safe to be stolen. The family are presented as 'generously' handing over the material to the National Museum when technically they should have been charged, or certainly told off!
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/l...66469.html
It was quite a well publicised story, a BA gold hoard kept in a safe by some pharmacists in Roscommon that was stolen, recovered and then put on display in the National Museum. The thing about the story that is never mentioned is that the family had been breaking the law. All artefacts discovered since 1926 are automatically the property of the Irish State. That stuff should have been handed in as soon as it was found, and should never have been in that safe to be stolen. The family are presented as 'generously' handing over the material to the National Museum when technically they should have been charged, or certainly told off!