Detectives wait to talk to man over daylight abduction

Detectives were last night waiting to talk to a father of three after he was subjected to a daylight abduction near his home before being released badly beaten.

The ordeal unfolded in front of shocked neighbours in an affluent estate in Virginia, Co Cavan, at 3.30pm on Tuesday.

Richard O’Donovan, 31, was driven off the road, chased, assaulted, then dragged into his attackers’ car and taken away overnight.