This fireplace was stolen from a house in Rathgar, Dublin 6 during a break-in on February 20.
The house was being renovated at the time.
A ‘gutted’ Tom Magee writes:
“I know you don’t normally do this… But trying to locate this fireplace – decent reward offered.”
Anyone?
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It’s probably on the Continent by now.
With the horse.
Who DID take the horse to France?
Ashen-faced. Guy must be hearth-briquetted over this loss.
Coal-d hearthed bastards.
Drive you mantle altogether.
Hope it’s not fire away.
Marble fireplace…..you’d want to have some stones to pull that out.
I would be flaming furious in your position. Did you inform the Guards?
They’re doing a chimney sweep of the area. Hopefully that’ll smoke ’em out.
Soot tight, so.
He’ll be stoked if he gets it back.
Have another look at home, it’s usually where the hearth is.
I’ll have a poker ’round when I get home later
Pipe down
Did you call the fire-guards?
Hope they turf the sods that did it into jail
Grate work, everybody!
Fuelish thing to steal.
It’s bellows the belt.
Coal-hearted b**tards.
Hearth-less b**stards more like.
Mantle-ers
Just find the haulting site with the biggest, most elegant plume of (non black) smoke billowing from a caravan.
*Tom sees a load of replies to his post, gets excited to read what must surely be some promising leads*
…he’ll just have to take it on the tine
That’s exactly what the British police investigating the dog poisoning at Crufts said to themselves.
He will be giving us some smoldering bad looks once he realises this thread is full of dead wood
He can rake over them.
What sort of lock did you have on it?
‘Same happened t’me,
Although t”wasn’t as fancy as that
But I know how pissed off you are Tom
A few things you should know tho
Firstly this wasn’t opportunistic
And it wasn’t a solo act
Secondly. T’was someone you know
Sorry.
Look at you, Miss Marble!
That got a chuckle…
It’ll be Marbles alright when Tom susses his Rathgar neighbours aren’t as grand as he thinks
Are they on Tinder?
Stop kindling about
Ash sumone else
For sure. They do more than novenas on Highfield Road.
Break-ins during renovations is huge at the moment, anecdotally. Good thread on the Pin at http://www.thepropertypin.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=63999.
Hey buddy, is this pun related? Keep on topic please
I suspect the previous puns flue right over his head
You’ve surpassed yourself with that one. Hearthy congratulations!
Zip it.
Cut him some slack
Ooh, *burn*…
There’s been a rake of these breakins lately.
http://www.thepropertypin.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=63999
That flue by me.
The level of puns here has truly decindergrated.
Tongs have gotten out of control.
Well, that’s us well and truely BURNED!
Sure, you may as well ember-ace it
Once the Coke heads arrived the heat went out of it.
I’ll bitumen they’ll improve.
You’re a chip off the old block
Full sweep now
Or are there more for the pun bunker?
Ah lads, this fellow has had a beautiful fireplace stolen and all you lot can come out with is a load of puns – it really grates on my nerves
We really shouldn’t be poking fun…
Normally I call you all idiots but these puns really didn’t Bore the Moana.
Im guessing a weighed down ford transit is pulling into a large urban conurbation somewhere in southern England about now.
Like ASHford?
… or Burnley?
or Grate Yarmouth.
Don’t forget, STOKE-on-Trent…
Or Lud-glow?
Or maybe they took it on a plane to Heatrow.
Coal miners Strike!
On a more serious point, how do you detach a marble fireplace from the wall. Have a job on in Killiney at the moment which is turning into a real bugger.
So that’s what the lurry was for
Wonder if the cops logged it on Pulse.
Log. Good one.
Oh. You were felled for that old chestnut
Sorry for your loss, Tom. This happened to my family in the early ’90s, not even during a renovation but when we were away: it was a huge cast iron fireplace that dominated the sitting room and a gang of thieves ripped it out of the wall. Our parents were gobsmacked at the audacity of it and we children were badly shaken. The house never felt the same and we moved a while afterwards. It’s sad because it really was the heart of the home, where we gathered every evening, hung our first Christmas stockings etc, and we didn’t even have a photo to remember it by. I fantasised about catching the robbers for years afterwards.
It wasn’t necessarily someone you know, per Frilly’s comment above, as these horrible criminals drive around actively looking for houses to target. Unfortunately, there’s such a tiny chance of the Gardaí recovering it that you should assume it’s gone for good. Hopefully insurance will cover the financial hit and you can get the new fireplace of your dreams; or if it has sentimental value at least you could use the photo to get an exact replica.
Sparks might fly I’d say if ever confronts the perp
There’s no smoke without fire, Mr Lion :)
Well who wants to be poplar?
Oh I enjoyed that *(no pun, just funny).
awww everyone deserves a F lame…
No updates then?
We need to be kept a-breast of events.
There was a spark of hope when a weighed down ford transit was spotted in Sutton Coalfield.
This is surely an almighty stack of puns.