A lorry-driver was tied up for 14 hours after two men hijacked his vehicle in Co Kildare on Friday night. The driver had collected a container-load of electronic PCU motorboards from Dublin Airport and was delivering them to EMC Computers in Ovens, Co Cork.
He stopped in the main street in Kildare at 10.45 p.m. to buy chips and when he returned to his vehicle, two men were waiting in the cab. They bundled him into the back. They wore balaclavas and had what was described as a revolver. On Saturday at 1 p.m., the driver was found tied up in the back of the lorry, which was left in Blackrock. Gardai did not release his name.