DUBLIN — The police in Northern Ireland, tongues firmly in cheek, have issued a missing-person appeal to the public after a statue of a Celtic god of the sea was stolen from a remote mountainside.
The police are working on the assumption that the human-size statue of the god was cut from its plinth and stolen by religious extremists offended by idolatry. A five-foot wooden cross inscribed “Thou Shalt Not Have False Gods Before Me” stood in its place until the police took it down as evidence.
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He told The Derry Journal: “I don’t think whoever did this is interested in selling it on, because you can’t melt it down. I hope it can be found and it’s not too badly damaged.”
