Top garda officials and senior management from financial institutions are meeting tomorrow to go through current procedures and protocols line by line in relation to tiger kidnaps and make whatever changes are necessary, it emerged today.

Gardaí are continuing to hold seven people in custody this morning in connection with Friday's robbery on Bank of Ireland in College Green, Dublin.

An armed gang escaped with €7m after holding a mother and daughter hostage as a young worker was ordered to carry out the biggest ever bank heist in this country.

A family with a young child were held hostage in an overnight "tiger" kidnapping as an armed gang forced a Bank of Ireland worker into its College Green offices to hand over cash.

The family of a bank employee have been held hostage at their home Co Kildare during a so-called tiger kidnapping overnight.