Mother uses nailgun to protect home

A Galway mother whose home has been broken into four times in as many months has taken to arming herself with a nailgun to protect her family.

Noreen Hopkins and her family are about to move into a cottage near Milltown that she and her husband have spent the past eight months renovating. During that period the house has been repeatedly burgled and stripped of materials from copper piping to personal items.

The young mother has resorted to staying in the house overnight, armed with a nail gun, to protect her property.