Bags with €1.1m of rings and watches found after robbery

Two holdall bags, containing over €1.1m worth of diamond rings and Rolex watches, were discovered under a bush on the banks of a lake in Galway city shortly after an armed robbery had taken place in a city centre jewellers, a trial in Galway heard today.

Members of the public assisted gardaí in catching two of four men arrested shortly before midday on February 11, 2015, in connection with a robbery which had taken place a short time earlier at Hartmann jewellers.

One of the four men, Irmantas Paulauskas, aged 38, pleaded not guilty before Galway Circuit Criminal Court yesterday to the robbery of diamond rings and Rolex watches from Richard Hartmann, 29 William St, Galway, on February 11, 2015.