Gardaí probe child abduction attempt

GARDAÍ in Limerick are investigating the attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl as she walked home from evening Mass.

The incident happened at around 9.15pm on Sunday night as the girl made her way home to Hyde Avenue from Our Lady of Lourdes Church.

Supt Frank O’Brien, Roxboro, said a number of people in a van approached the girl near the Greenpark shopping centre at the junction of Childers Road and Ballinacurra.