Ex-Kilkenny hurler’s wife abducted by tiger raiders

A MOTHER-OF-THREE was abducted from her home by an armed gang in the latest tiger kidnapping involving a bank official’s family yesterday morning.

Mary Ronan, the wife of former Kilkenny hurler and Bank of Ireland official Adrian Ronan, was taken from her home 5km outside Kilkenny City shortly after 6am.

Her husband, who works at the Bank of Ireland on Parliament Street in Kilkenny city, was then ordered to go to the bank when it opened where he was to collect a “substantial amount of cash” for the gang.