Four plead guilty to aggravated burglary

Four men have admitted being involved in an aggravated burglary while in possession of two guns and a machete at the rural home of a young family last year.

The four, all from north Dublin, pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary at the home of Emma and Mark Corcoran and their children outside Killenaule in Co Tipperary, when they appeared before Clonmel Circuit Court yesterday.

Other charges were withdrawn after Michael Delaney SC, for the DPP, said the aggravated burglary pleas were acceptable to the State.