Gardaí are investigating the abduction of a woman in her 50s from a house on the Laois-Carlow border this morning.

Gardaí were tonight hunting three men who abducted a 62-year-old post office worker from outside her home during a botched tiger kidnapping.

A 62-year-old woman abducted outside her home by a gang of masked men was today recovering after escaping her captors.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating the kidnapping of a 62-year-old woman outside her home yesterday evening.

Gardai are to question kidnap victim Helen Judge later today, if doctors treating the 41-year-old deem her well enough.

Gardaí are waiting to question Helen Judge, who was found in secluded woodland on the Cooley Peninsula in Co. Louth this morning.

A 41-year-old woman kidnapped from her home in Allenwood in Co Kildare has been found safe and well.

Gardai were tonight continuing to hunt for the kidnappers of a 41-year-old woman believed to have been taken by force from her Co Kildare home.

Gardaí are continuing to hunt for the kidnappers of a 41-year-old woman who was taken by force from her Co Kildare home.

A woman has been kidnapped from her Kildare home and is being held against her will.