Bookmakers targeted by armed raiders in Dublin

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested five people following an attempted robbery at the head office of a bookmakers' firm in the Deansgrange area of the city last night.

Details of the incident are still sketchy, but reports this morning said a gang armed with a handgun and hammers was planning to rob the day's takings from the head of Chronicle bookmakers when he returned to the head office last night.