Organised crime gang with Limerick links to be sentenced for rhino horn plot

More than a dozen members of an organised crime gang are due to be sentenced after plotting to steal rhino horn and Chinese artefacts worth up to €71m in a series of museum raids.

The gang, dubbed the Rathkeale Rovers, as eight of the men had links to the town in Co Limerick, organised break-ins at museums including Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum and Durham's Oriental Museum in 2012