Two men armed with baseball bats stole a "considerable" amount of cash from the FSB offices in Newtownsmith, Galway, shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday, gardai said.
They smashed the surveillance camera on the premises before jumping over the counter and ransacking the offices. They escaped in a car driven by an accomplice. It was later found abandoned.
The two raiders are described as 6 feet tall. One had a goatee beard and wore a beige striped "collarless shirt. The second had in similar shirt and short black hair.