A popular priest was left severely shaken after armed men broke into his bedroom in the middle of the night demanding money.
Fr Arthur O’Neill, from the South Dublin parish of St Brigid’s in Cabinteely, was woken out of his sleep shortly after 5am on Sunday.
Two thugs brandishing a gun threatened to shoot him unless he gave them money. The cleric managed to convince them he had no cash in the house and miraculously the masked men fled without harming him – and all they took was his mobile phone.
Speaking exclusively to the Irish Mirror, Fr O’Neill said he was recovering from the shock and “delighted” to be in one piece.
He revealed: “I’m fine thank God although it obviously wasn’t very nice and not something you’d like happening every day but lightening doesn’t strike twice I hope.”
Back in October we revealed another Dublin priest, Fr Diarmuid Byrne suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on his brain in a savage beating at his home in Rialto.
The 69-year-old had to have 30 stitches in his head following the attack. Father-of-two Shane Cooney has been charged with the assault on the cleric.
That attack came just months after Galway-based priest, Fr Pat O’Brien was tied to a radiator and threatened by four masked raiders who entered his home in March.
Priests were urged to be vigilant in light of the attacks.
SOURCE-IRISH MIRROR
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