Garda probe after €64k roadside sculpture stolen

BRAZEN thieves are suspected of stealing another sculpture from the side of a road in the midlands this week.

Gardaí in Clara, Co Offaly, are investigating the disappearance of a €64,000, seven-metre high sculpture known as The Bronze Lady.

Commissioned in 2007, the statue depicting Grainne Óg by sculptress Ann Meldon Hugh was located along the M6 slip road approaching Moate in Co Westmeath.