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GARDAÍ in Clare are appealing for assistance in solving a number of burglaries that took place during the Christmas period.
Between 2pm on Christmas Day and 5.30pm on St Stephen’s Day, costume jewellery was stolen during a break-in to a house in Westwood, Ennis. The culprit gained entry by breaking a rear window.
A burglar used the same method of entry during a burglary in Showground’s View, Ennis. The breakin took place between 1.30pm on Wednesday, December 26 and 3.15am on Thursday, December 27.
As well as stealing a 32-inch Samsung television, Playstation3 and eight games, a Hewlett Packard laptop, 3D Panasonic TV, DVD player and key to the patio doors, the burglars also stole a white Toyota saloon (00 OY 1070), which was later, recovered.
Efforts were made to steal the copper piping from a bathroom in a house in Ballina sometime between 4pm on Saturday, December 22 and 10am on Thursday last.
A Triton shower was stolen from the house in Beechgrove Grange Road, Ballina, after the culprit broke in through a rear window.
In Kilfenora, a house on Doctor’s Hill was broken into between 8pm on St Stephen’s night and 8am the following morning. The house and its contents were disturbed but nothing appears to have been taken.
The occupants of a house in Killernan Miltown Malbay were not as lucky. A sum of money, including sterling, and a white Citreon Berlingo Van Sl59 OFF were stolen from this home some time between 8.30pm and 11.40pm on Friday, December 28. The burglars gained entry to the house by breaking a side window and then stole the keys of the van.
In Kilkee, between 2pm on Thursday, December 27 and 10.30am on Saturday, December 29, an apartment on Circular Road was broken into through the rear door. A 32-inch Toshiba flatscreen TV and some bed clothing was stolen.
Meanwhile, Gardaí are looking for any witnesses to criminal damage of a car which was parked outside the Church in Roslevan on Christmas Eve. Three of the car’s tyres were slashed between 7.30pm and 8.45pm.