€600,000 of artworks go missing from state collection

Leinster House

Over 200 paintings and artworks worth over €600,000 have gone missing from the state’s art collection.

The biggest single loss was in Killarney House, Co Kerry, where a Garda investigation is ongoing into the disappearance of 26 paintings and 13 other items worth over €550,000. But the Office of Public Works (OPW) has also reported that 173 art works worth a total of €49,000 have gone missing from various state institutions which have ...