Raiders use JCB to scoop out ATM

GARDAÍ are hunting the gang behind an audacious raid in Co Kildare in which a JCB was used to scoop out an ATM machine from a restaurant.

The raiders are thought to have escaped with about €170,000 in the robbery at Mother Hubbard’s, Moyvalley, near Kinnegad.

The well-known truckstop and restaurant suffered significant structural damage after a corner of it, housing the ATM, was demolished by the JCB.