Raiders wield sword against pensioners

Two elderly sisters and their older brother were tied up and prodded with blades during a horrific and prolonged burglary at their home in Limerick.

The attacks on Willie Creed, 74, and his unmarried sisters, Chrissie, 72 and Nora, 66, began on Thursday night and continued into the early hours of yesterday morning.

Two men wearing ski masks burst into the Creeds’ farmhouse home at Ballyluddy, Pallasgreen at 10.30pm on Thursday. They continually beat Mr Creed and his sisters, tied them up, and bundled them into a bedroom where they subjected them to further assaults, prodding them with a sword and a knife. Before leaving, the attackers ransacked the house.