Manager saw threads hanging from painting

A banqueting manager at the Shelbourne Hotel said he noticed threads hanging from a painting in one of their function rooms and took a picture of the damage on his phone.

Andrew Shannon, aged 50, of Willians Way, Ongar, Dublin 15, has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to damaging two Felim Egan paintings — ‘Morning Strand’ and ‘Evening Strand’ — at the Shelbourne Hotel on January 8, 2014.

Mr Shannon has further pleaded not guilty to damaging one Claude Monet painting entitled ‘Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sail Boat’ (1874) at the National Gallery of Ireland on Clare St on June 29, 2012.