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A WOMAN HAS appealed for information after her late mother’s jewellery was robbed from her home in west Dublin on Wednesday night.
Sinead Quinn from Blanchardstown called Liveline on RTÉ Radio 1 to say her house had been robbed and that her mother’s jewellery had been taken, along with her late brother-in-law’s wedding ring and watch.
Sinead, her fiancé and her sister are all currently living in her dad’s house. Their mother died last March, her brother-in-law died the year before.
The family had gone out for a meal in the early evening and returned to the house at around 9pm. They had no inclination that they had been robbed until later that night.
Sinéad explained: “We went out of the house and went for a bite to eat and we came back and nothing seemed out of place. We went off to bed and my sister noticed that some jewellery was missing. She came in and said all my jewellery was gone and then we realised all my mom’s jewellery was gone.
“My sister lost her husband two-and-a-half years ago. All her wedding and engagement rings were stolen. All my mam’s rings were stolen as well, basically all the heirlooms she wanted to hand down.
We found out later from gardaí that they got in through the kitchen window, they went through everyone’s drawers. All they wanted was the jewellery. There was car keys and laptops there but they weren’t touched. They knew what they wanted.
Sinead explained to Joe Duffy that her mum worked hard all her life, she only had her jewellery and she’d earmarked it all for members of the family when she was dying.
The family had intended to share it amongst themselves at Christmas time but they felt they were not ready to do so as it was still so close to their mother’s death.
The Christmas before her mother died, she got Sinead in Kris Kindle. Her mother had a gold heart locket made, engraved with her name Patti and in it was a photo of her parents.
Sinéad has appealed to members of the public to keep an eye out if they are offered jewellery for sale. Anyone with information is being urged to contact gardaí.
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Absolute s€umbags of the highest order
Let’s hope she gets the ring back that’s all she wants,.
@Mick12: Most people have jewelry that is very precious to them because of how they received it or who they received it from. The little I have I wear as they are my contact to who I have loved and lost.
Laws are for the ordinary people who for example don’t pay their tv license. There is no law for the people with previous convictions until they murder someone. Guaranteed these people are repeat offenders , why are these criminals been protected with the laws we have?
@Windy Atlantic Way: sing a different tune. How do you know the people responsible have previous convictions. If ye don’t want to pay your TV licence, don’t get a TV
It’s all me, me, me with these crime victims. Those poor criminals probably had a tough upbringing, then they developed a drug problem, their granny died (they were very close you know) and then with all the stress of having that suspended sentence from the previous time they were caught….it’s not their fault
The house was burgled, not robbed.
@Finbarr Dowling: “there was no inclination they had been robbed…”
So many things wrong with that sentence.
@Finbarr Dowling: “robbed from her home” is acceptable grammar.
An obvious question but was there an alarm on the house and was it on? If it was then it would have highlighted the forced entry… Best to deter these s(um as much as possible, alarm, front and rear security lights, double locks. Anything to slow them down.
@Sean @114: who takes notice of an alarm these days. With alot of rural stations closed down and urban stations open only certain hours is it not a losing battle . Sure you can do as much as possible to deter intrusion into a property but at the end of day if they want in they will get in
@Dave barrett: this is Blanchardstown in the early evening, not rural Ireland, plenty of people within close proximity, alarm goes off and people take notice, trust me. I’ve been living in an estate in Dublin for decades, you never get used to and ignore a neighbour’s alarm, especially if it’s early evening and everyone is sitting around the tele. I’m guessing no alarm or alarm and not switched on.
@Dave barrett: I take notice. I live in small estate and if I hear alarm go off I wait a breath to see if fixed and if not I call 999.
My alarm is monitored and I feel safer with that.
Usually posted to UK would have been in postbox before the break in was discovered unfortunately
Bedra in Francis st is where you need too check with
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