Gardai have allocated a 55-strong team of detectives and Gardai to the search for the £3,000,000 haul of paintings that was taken from Co Wicklow’s Russborough House yesterday.

Gardai are continuing their search for the armed gang who stole paintings from the Beit collection in Russborough house in Co Wicklow yesterday.

Gardai are today continuing their probe into the theft of two paintings from Russborough House, near Blessington, Co Wicklow.

An armed gang that stole two old masters worth more than £3m from an art collection in Co Wicklow were tonight thought to have slipped out of the area - despite having to flee on foot.

Gardai are today investigating the theft of two paintings valued at a total of £3m from Russborough House, Co Wicklow.