Armed gardaí broke into wrong house and woke terrified children during two-hour raid, court told

The court heard that several members of the garda’s armed unit entered their bedroom and pointed their guns at a wardrobe before allowing the children downstairs where they were kept with their parents for two hours while their home was searched. File picture: Dan Linehan

Armed gardaí, who broke into and searched a wrong house, entered the bedroom of three terrified children aged between eight and 14 who had been asleep in their beds, a judge heard on Friday.

Counsel Conor Kearney told Judge Fiona O’Sullivan in the Circuit Civil Court that several members of the garda’s armed unit entered their bedroom and pointed their guns at a wardrobe before allowing the children downstairs where they were kept with their parents for two hours while their home was searched.