Garda helicopter used in arrest

A woman and two men were arrested after a Garda helicopter chase following a raid on a Co Wicklow post office yesterday

A woman and two men were arrested after a Garda helicopter chase following a raid on a Co Wicklow post office yesterday. The incident happened at noon when two armed and masked men entered the Grangecon Post Office near Baltinglass.

They fired a shot which hit the wall and got away with a sum of money, but gardai declined to say how much. There were no customers in the post office at the time.

A woman accomplice was waiting in a red Nissan car and the three made their getaway in the vehicle. They abandoned the car at the Glen of Imaal and the helicopter pursued them across the glen where they were arrested three hours after the robbery. A sum of money was recovered from the scene.