Back-up alarms urged as gang takes €60,000 in raids

BUSINESSES in south Munster have been warned to install back-up alarm systems after a gang got away with nearly €60,000 in three separate raids.

The gang first struck at Castlelyons in east Cork where they went down manholes and cut electrical cables, disconnecting the alarm system at the local post office, which is housed in the Glanbia centre.

They used a ladder, which had been earlier stolen from a farm at Aghern, near the village of Conna, to scale the front of the building and smash an alarm.