Ya that happenned to us twice just before i had my baby in April.
There was thousands worth of tools stolen. All our friends are garda so they even helped out and kept their eye out at different raids on markets and various places etc etc.
You should wish all the bad luck in the world onto the hands of the robbers and whoever buys them! Trust me Carma works! Never buy another mans tools! They will bring bad luck! If you go down to the markets (wont mention them) its like a graveyard of stolen tools with their owners reg num and name still carved into them!!!! 🙄
I know there is no insurance policy that covers a trademans tools. There is a lot of trademen going to Oz to work and selling their tools. You could get him to check the papers and buy and sell, ebay, etc etc. Anyone who had genuine tools for sale will have their receipts for up to 5years anyway so they will be able to prove that they are not stolen.
Best of luck to your bro thats terrible. 😡