Two injured in aggravated burglary in Galway

Family home was robbed in Parkwest, Clonberne, at about 7.30pm on Tuesday

A family was the victim of an aggravated burglary at their home in Galway on Tuesday.  File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
A family was the victim of an aggravated burglary at their home in Galway on Tuesday. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

A family was the victim of an aggravated burglary at their home in Galway on Tuesday.

The attack took place at an address in Parkwest, Clonberne, Co Galway, at about 7.30pm.

Gardaí said the family had just arrived home when three men entered their house and assaulted the parents before leaving with a small sum of money and mobile phones.

The parents received non-lifethreatening injuries during the incident.

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Their two children - one thought to be a toddler - were uninjured.

Gardaí said the burglars are eastern European, thinly-built and between 170 and 180cm in height.

Gardaí in Tuam have asked anyone with information to contact them at 093-70840, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800-666111 or to call in to any other station.

Mark Hilliard

Mark Hilliard

Mark Hilliard is a reporter with The Irish Times