Hunt for armed robber who hijacked car

A LARGE-SCALE manhunt is continuing for an armed robber who hijacked a car at gunpoint, used it during a raid on a credit union and then abandoned it in forestry.

The hijacking took place in an isolated part of north east Cork at around 10.30am yesterday.

A man in his late 40s was driving his car along a quiet road, about a mile-and- a-half south of the village of Ballynoe, when the hijacker struck.