Trad musician Andy Irvine has appealed for help after his instruments worth over €16,000 went missing during a trip from Dublin Airport two weeks ago.
Irvine, who celebrated his 80th birthday last month, was travelling to a music festival in Denmark and flew through Frankfurt and Copenhagen before his final destination at Aalborg.
The instruments are a guitar-bouzouki and a mandola, made specifically for Irvine by Stefan Sobell. The musician had to borrow instruments while performing at the Skagen Folk Festival on June 29.
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Irvine posted a public appeal on Facebook asking for help and said he believes the instruments are still in Dublin. He said: "Flying to Denmark ten days ago to play at a Festival, my two Sobell instruments, a guitar-bouzouki & a mandola, probably valued in excess of €16,000, failed to arrive & have not been traced yet."
"The chaos at airports is such that they may be in Dublin, Frankfurt or Copenhagen. I have a suspicion that they never left Dublin & I wonder if anybody knows someone there, working as a baggage handler, who has access to misplaced baggage & might look for my missing instruments?"
Dublin Airport has said that lost luggage is the responsibility of the airlines and not the airport.
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