Gardai are searching for two men who stole the payroll from a plant-hire company in Balbriggan, Co Dublin, yesterday. The men were wearing balaclavas and were armed with monkey wrenches. They escaped in a Volvo car, which gardai said was used to block a gold Renault Clio being driven by a woman at Clonard Cross. The two men broke the passenger window, forced the woman from the car and drove off in it.
Gardai said the woman was not physically hurt but was badly shaken. They were unable to say how much money had been taken "but it was probably thousands of pounds".