A CO Donegal pensioner robbed for the second time in two months went on national TV tonight to tell the thugs who attacked her: “I’d love to see them shot.”
Phyllis McGee, 78, spoke to RTE’s Prime Time, telling presenter Miriam O’Callaghan how thugs broke into her home after she got home from Mass last Saturday night.
Speaking for the first time about the incident Miss McGee told how gang members threw her to the ground a number of times.
“They threw me to the ground and every time I tried to get up they threw me down again,” said the pensioner, attacked at her home outside Pettigo.
Miss McGee is one of at least 12 pensioner victims of thieves in Co Donegal in just ten days.
“I was just getting over the last time when I was attacked on November 16th. I was shaking,” she told the programme.
“I’d love to see them lying dead and I would have enjoyed seeing them being shot and lying dead there because I was in that bad of a mood after it.”
She said she feared the gang returning to her home.
“It might be next year and it might be tonight, we just don’t know,” she said.
Lawrence McManus, from the local community alert group, said he had been assured that the Garda station in Pettigo would re-open.
He told the programme that rural communities were living in fear, insisting: “The attack on Phyllis was an attack on the whole community.”
Michael Chance from the IFA said “Donegal has gone crazy” after the recent attacks.
Senior Gardai told Donegal Daily today that all efforts are being made to catch those responsible.
In many of the cases they are liaising with the PSNI in the North.
