Concern over security at Flatley’s home after theft

Concern has been raised about Riverdance millionaire Michael Flatley’s security after a gang were able to break into his mansion with apparent ease and steal a rhino horn which could be worth anything between €200,000 and €400,000 on the black market.

It is believed the same “highly professional outfit” — the Limerick and Clare-based crime gang nicknamed the Rathkeale Rovers — also stole four rhino horns from the National Museum of Ireland last year and were involved in a spate of similar thefts across Europe which sparked a Europol alert.

Huge money can be made from selling the horns in China, where they are prized as a powerful aphrodisiac and form ingredients for traditional medicine.