Kit-chen sink drama has the purr-fect ending

A GANG of 10 men and women spent four hours tearing apart the foundations of a new home - after the owners’ curious kitten got stuck in an underground pipe.

Six-month-old Ritchie had been missing for three days before her owners realised she was under the family home in Thurles, Co Tipperary.

Homeowner Tom Ryan Casey, 34, said: “We let out Ritchie and her sister Lulu on Friday morning as normal but Ritchie never came back. When we had those freezing cold nights on Friday and Saturday we just assumed that we’d lost her for good.”