Attack victim: Gang must stay in prison

An elderly businessman whose family was threatened and savagely beaten by a gang says he believes the gang who terrorised the Corcoran family in Tipperary should never be released from prison.

Frank Duane, who is in his 70s, said his own family’s nightmare at the hands of a gang had all the hallmarks of the nightmare ordeal suffered by Frank and Emma Corcoran and their young family in Tipperary.

A seven-man gang is beginning jail terms of up to 20 years each for the raid on the young family on November 20, 2013.