Gardaí investigating the abduction of a bank official's wife from Terenure and theft of €300,000 from the AIB in Clondalkin on September 2 have arrested a man and a woman.

A father-of-one has been charged with money laundering in connection with last week's €300,000 tiger kidnapping in Dublin.

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has been accused of using the kidnap trauma of a bank official and his wife to float the possibility of introducing ATM charges.

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has been accused of using the kidnap trauma of a bank official and his wife to float the possibility of introducing ATM charges.

An armed gang got away with hundreds of thousands of euros in cash today after taking a bank worker’s wife hostage in a tiger kidnap.