Stolen Virgin Mary statue found dumped in university car park

Residents of Horgan’s Buildings near Magazine Road awoke on Tuesday morning to discover that the statue had disappeared overnight — and the finger of suspicion was pointed firmly at college students out celebrating Freshers’ Week.
UCC’s Students Union intervened and offered its offices as an anonymous drop-off point for the statue for any student who may have taken it as a drunken prank and was too embarrassed to return it the following morning.