Stolen Memories

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Have you seen this handbag?

Gemma Coughlan writes:

I’m hoping you can help us out. My sister’s handbag was stolen last night (Sunday, October 9) from Busáras Station, [Store Street, Dublin 1] at around 10:30pm.

While the handbag and most contents can be replaced there’s one thing that cannot-there was a large pink plastic folder in the bag containing hundreds of photos of our grandparents, parents and all my siblings and me growing up-in particular some of our late mother.

Our father’s 65th birthday is coming up and we were trying to put something together with the photos to mark it. All the photos are originals and hadn’t been digitally copied yet so it’s quite upsetting.

I’m hoping you can ask readers to keep an eye out in the vicinity of Busáras for the handbag (above) and bright pink folder with all the photos. It would mean so much to us to get them back. The bag also contained some money, two asthma inhalers, earphones and a bright pink hot water bottle so very random contents!!

Anyone?

Update:

Gemma writes:

Amazingly enough a friend found about ten of our photos this morning along with the folder but most are gone and the photos were all wet but hopefully retrievable.Our friend passed the street coming from Marlborough Quay into Hawkins Street-at the corner there are two phone booths and this is where she saw the photos laying around and picked them up. I’m hoping someone else spotted the photos earlier and took them.

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6 thoughts on “Stolen Memories

  1. Truth in the News

    Check the CCTV footage it should be easy indentify who is the culprit as there
    a good few cameras located at this Bus Station…also Store Street Garda Station
    is across the road and they should have local street CCTV footage too.

  2. Spud1

    Most likely stashed in a bin or chucked over a bush somewhere very nearby as they got whatever cash / valuables they need to feed their habit.

    Hope you can get them back and glad your sister wasn’t hurt. Still an awful experience though.

  3. Eamonn Clancy

    Check all bins in the vicinity. They usually dump contents and if there’s any vacant sites look over the wall or through the railings.

  4. Gemma Coughlan

    Hi all,

    Thanks for replying on this. We headed straight over to the Garda Station to file a report last night and they should have CCTV in the next two days or so. We’ve contacted Dublin City Council on the bins too. Fortunately a friend saw some of the photos this morning by phone booths at the corner of Hawkins Street coming from Marlborough Quay and picked them up – there was about ten there – all wet but hopefully they’ll dry out. The rest are still missing but I’m hoping someone else may have picked them up. If people can keep an eye out it would be great.

    Thanks!

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