Limerick and Cork properties raided over rhino horn thefts

Dozens of homes have been raided in an international police investigation into the theft of valuable rhino horns.

Limerick and Cork properties raided over rhino horn thefts

Dozens of homes have been raided in an international police investigation into the theft of valuable rhino horns.

An organised crime gang, linked by European security chiefs to a large traveller family originally from the west of Ireland, is believed to have netted goods and artefacts worth €40m in a string of robberies.

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