Gardaí probe Galway abduction claim

Gardaí in Co Galway are probing a possible attempt to abduct a teenage girl near the village of Belclare last week.

Reports this morning said the girl, in her early teens, was approached by a number of strangers in a van while walking along a road in the area last Friday afternoon.

One of the men asked her if she wanted a lift, but she refused and they drove off.

This morning's reports said local gardaí were treating the incident as serious and were asking anyone who may have seen anything suspicious to contact them.