Published: Saturday, 16th January, 2010 4:29pm

Breaking news: Thieves fail in "withdrawal" of ATM

by Una D'Arcy

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The scene after the failed raid in Castlepollard.

A gang failed in their bid to prise an ATM from the outside wall of a Castlepollard bank in the early hours of this morning, Saturday January 16.

It is understood locally, that the bid to rip an ATM machine from the Bank of Ireland was discovered sometime after 5am. Locals report that a teleporter was left embedded in the wall by the fleeing thieves, with the atm and its associated internal machinery still in the rubble.

A local shop keeper, who witnessed the removal of the teleporter from the wall after gardai had sealed of the area described how the snapped prongs remained with the atm machine.

Gardai and bank officials remain at the scene.

Last month, it was announced that less money was to be stored in machines deemed vulnerable to attacks.