Family and babysitter endure savage raid ordeal

A YOUNG family and a teenage babysitter were subjected to a prolonged period of savage violence yesterday.

A father-of-one was tied up and severely beaten around the face and arms by masked men wielding firearms at his house in west Dublin.

His partner, their child, a child of a relative and a 15-year-old babysitter were all tied up and present during the beating that went on for some five hours.