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Danny De Vaal

Shop owner, 93, robbed by four armed thugs back at work hours after Roscommon ordeal

A 93-year-old shop owner who was robbed by four armed thugs has said: “I forgive those people who did it.”

Determined business owner Una Farrell was back behind the counter yesterday of Farrell’s Mini Market in Ballintubber, Co Roscommon, serving customers despite her terrifying ordeal.

The twisted thieves tied up two of the elderly woman’s sons John and Seamus before making off with cash, cigarettes, and some of her sentimental jewellery in the burglary which took place in the early hours of Monday.

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