A garda investigation has been launched after a man armed with an iron bar robbed a sum of cash from a Meath bookmakers on Saturday afternoon.
The robbery occurred at around 1:30pm at Paddy Power bookmakers in Rathoath. Gardai on the Meath Crime Prevention Facebook page said a lone man "entered the premises carrying an iron bar and "approached the counter and demanded money".
They described the man as "around 6 foot tall, of skinny build and with a Dublin accent" and said he was wearing a dark coloured tracksuit top with grey sleeves. Officers added that the man got a small amount of cash and left the scene on foot and went into the nearby graveyard.
