Shopkeeper ‘frozen with fear’ by raid in Limerick

The owner of a country shop has said she froze with terror after a masked man, armed with a knife, ran into her premises and attempted to rob her.

Dolores McNamara, proprietor of McNamara’s Shop, Glin, Co Limerick, was chatting to customers on Thursday when a man in dark clothing and armed with a blade ran in and demanded cash from the shop till.

“He was tall and thin and wearing a balaclava. He was dressed all in black. I’d say he was a young man. He was very close up,” said Ms McNamara.