A machine worth €6000 was taken from a business in Wolfhill at the weekend as well as a quantity of power tools and handtools.
A bobcat/SkidSteer digger worth €6000 was taken and the persons involved travelled in the direction of Wolfhill towards the N78 Athy to Castlecomer road using a Red VW Caddy van and a car trailer with the bobcat on the back.
From 10:30pm to approximately 4am the group were on the premises three times and left in the same direction each time.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Portlaoise Garda Station on 057 8674100 or email laoisoffaly.crimeprevention@garda.ie.
Elsewhere, a laptop and jewelry were among the items stolen from a car in Mountrath on Sunday afternoon.
Gardai in Mountrath are appealing for information after a car was broken in into at Mountrath Golf Club between 2 and 2.30pm on Sunday. Mountrath Garda Station can be contacted at 057 8732236.
In a separate crime, approximately 20 gates were stolen from farms in the Attanagh/Ballyouskill area near Durrow in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The plough, which had been used to decorate a green space at Moores Cross in Walsh Island for the past number of years, was taken on Tuesday night of last week.
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