Two elderly brothers beaten in house raid

Gardaí have appealed for help in finding two raiders who beat up and robbed two elderly bachelor brothers after breaking into their house.

Michael Kelly, 82, and Owen Kelly, 80, were subjected to a night of terror after two men broke into their remote farmhouse in north Co Galway.

The two raiders, who were armed with a knife and firearm, broke into the farmhouse down a remote laneway in the townland of Ballyroe near Williamstown on the Galway-Roscommon border at 11pm on Thursday.