Woman was terrorised by intruders at rural cottage

Fear gripped an idyllic rural thatched cottage in Limerick when intruders terrorised the middle-aged woman living there, a court heard.

Catherine O’Meara Carew was tied hand and foot as three men ransacked every room at Sandy Lane, near Caherconlish.

Ms O’Meara Carew, who is in her 50s, lay helpless as the raiders refused to believe there was no large sum of money in her house. They made off with €241 in cash and four rings.