Two more people have been arrested today by gardaí hunting a gang which took a bank worker and his family hostage last week.
A man aged 30 and a woman aged 21 were arrested in Dublin this afternoon and are being held at Coolock and Malahide Garda stations. They are being questioned under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act and can be held for 72 hours.
A total of five suspects are now in custody.
Seven others who were being questioned over the weekend in connection with the incident were released without charge overnight.
Files on those released are being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions. They were among ten people arrested after four armed raiders carried out the fourth such kidnapping of the year in Swords, north Co Dublin.
The crime began at 8.30pm last Wednesday when the assistant manager of Balbriggan Bank of Ireland along with his wife and two sons - aged 17 and 23 - were held hostage in their Swords home by an armed gang.
At about midnight, the official's wife and children were taken from the house and brought to a mobile home on the outskirts of Drogheda, Co Louth, where they were held overnight.
The official was made to go to work as normal on Saturday morning where he withdrew €500,000. The cash was later dropped off between Donabate and Swords at the Malahide estuary - some time between 11.30am and midday - and later taken by members of the gang.
At about the same time the money was dropped off, the man's wife and sons were taken from where they were being held and left in a car at the side of Slane Road, at Oldbridge, just outside Drogheda, Co Louth, close to the M1 motorway.
A major Garda operation, including specialist armed units and gardaí from the Dublin metropolitan area, was put in place as the events unfolded.
Additional reporting: PA