Around 80 jobs are expected to be lost at Irish Pride — one of the country’s leading bakery businesses — despite it being rescued.

CALLOUS thieves who detained a man and his family as his wife lay seriously ill in a hospital bed made certain of their getaway with what is believed to be a substantial sum of money by stealing their victim’s prosthetic leg in order to prevent him from following them.

A CRIMINAL gang left empty-handed after an attempted robbery on an ATM machine in Carlow yesterday.

A gang used a stolen digger to break an ATM free from a building but they failed to get any cash, gardaí said today.