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Police in the Irish Republic are hunting an armed gang which has carried out the country's biggest ever robbery. The gang forced a bank official to withdraw an estimated 7m euros (£6.2m) from the Bank of Ireland branch where he works at College Green in Dublin.
They forced their way into his home in County Kildare on Thursday night and took his partner, her mother and a five-year-old boy hostage.
The man's partner was beaten and the family taken away.
The official, who is in his 20s, was then forced to drive his car to the city centre bank.
After withdrawing the money, he handed it over to the gang at Clontarf DART station.
His girlfriend's family was then released in the Ashbourne area of County Meath at around 0700 GMT on Friday.
In 2004, a gang forced two employees of the Northern Bank to help it steal £26m from the bank's central Belfast vault.
The Irish Justice minister, Dermot Ahern, said there was an onus on the banks to improve their procedures and security.






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