Gardai are hunting for a gang of up to five men involved in a botched post office robbery in Co. Tipperary.

The gang used a number of diggers to try to gain access to the post office in Cahir at around 5am this morning.

However it seems they fled when the alarm was triggered.

Diggers were used - and abandoned - in the operation

No-one was in the premises at the time and gardai say nothing was taken during the incident.

Anyone with information is asked to contact gardai.

Postmaster in Cahir is Henry Reidy. He told Tipp FM they were able to view what happened on their internal security cameras.