Search on after armed robbery of post office

Gardaí in Kerry are appealing to the public for information after an armed robbery by masked men at Tarbert Post Office, a village on the Shannon estuary, north of Listowel.

The incident reportedly involved a number of men who arrived in a car which was later abandoned.

Four men in a black Mitsubishi Colt, it emerged, had pulled up outside the post office shortly after 4pm on Monday. The car was later found burnt out.