Vandals Break Stone of Destiny, Sacred To High Kings Of Ireland

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Vandalism? There is a vibrant underground black market here in Ireland for archaeological artifacts with many if not most items stolen to order for the International Black Market for such goods.

The 'Official Agencies and the police ' spin' on these organized thefts is to present these as ' mindless vandalism' for news management since if the scale of the problem and the ineffective, underfunded and next to useless counter measures were appreciated there would be public uproar.

In Listowel, Co Kerry some months, a passing motorist disturbed some people at 2.30 AM with wire rope tied to the life sized bronze statue of a beloved town playwright, the late J B Keane in the final preparations for pulling the statue from its base to melt down as scrap. This is where the government and police inactivity to this market has led, thieves prepared to risk it in a town main st., then what chance for isolated monuments whether for the International black market or scrap value?.

Yes an appalling act but one that has all the indications of chips taken to order for someone who had a special need of these for occult or other purposes.

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