Family relive terror of night-time raid

A mother who had been recovering from breast cancer yesterday relived, along with her husband and their four young children, a night of terror when an armed gang burst into their rural home in Co Limerick.

Ann Garvey, of Sunville House, Pallasgreen, who had just undergone a mastectomy, was having a bath when two of the raiders forced their way into the bathroom, warning her they would shoot one of her daughters if she did not get up and hand over keys of a safe.

Her husband Gerard had a sawn-off shotgun pressed to his forehead after being handcuffed in the downstairs sitting room.