As I drove along the indentured coastline, developments unfolded in the statue’s increasingly puzzling tale. The police swept into action: a large-scale search, an appeal for information on a missing “person”, the involvement of the voluntary citizen Crime Stoppers group, and even a reward for his safe return filled the news agenda. More than a month after he was stolen, a party of hikers stumbled on his remains, unceremoniously dumped in a nearby forest.
Further south along the Way, Manannán is linked to Inishglora, an uninhabited holy island off the County Mayo coast. This island was the final resting places of the mythological Children of Lir, half-siblings of Manannán, who, according to legend, were magically turned into swans for 900 years. They spent 300 of it here, suffering great hardship in the Atlantic storm