Siblings ‘threaten elderly woman at gunpoint and ram garda car’

A brother and sister traumatised two elderly people, threatening one at gun point, in separate aggravated burglaries, before ramming their getaway car into two garda vehicles.

The siblings, from Dublin’s south inner city, were arrested by gardaí in Virginia, Co Cavan, in relation to the violent burglary of two neighbouring homes in Ballyjamesduff, some 10km away.

The brother is aged 27 and has a long criminal record, including for false imprisonment, robbery, threat to kill and burglary.