Burglars frustrated as safe holds firm after 56 years

Client confidentiality was most definitely in ‘safe keeping’ at a Co Limerick legal practice as frustrated burglars wasted an entire night in the run-up to Christmas, trying to crack a 56-year-old safe.

In a case supporting the nostalgic notion that they don’t make them like they used to, an old Chubb safe purchased by Jim Dennison Snr back in 1961 proved too much for today’s criminals.

In a scene straight out of the World’s Dumbest Criminals television series, the bungling burglars spent all of six hours battering away with kango hammers, nail bars, and lump hammers, it has emerged, but to no avail.