Gang attack householder with hammer

An armed gang broke into a man’s house and assaulted him with a hammer, it emerged today.

A number of men, masked and dressed in wigs, forced their way into the property in Redgap, Rathcoole, south Co Dublin, at around 9.20pm yesterday and stole two legally held shotguns.

They held the man at gunpoint and hit him on the head with the hammer.

It is understood the raiders fired a number of shots at the man’s car as they fled after his son tried to block them in.

The man was taken to hospital but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

His wife, also in the house at the time, was uninjured, but she was taken to hospital as a precaution.

Gardaí have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.