Co Kildare elderly couple recovering after early morning robbery on their return from holidays

An elderly Newbridge couple are traumatised after returning from their holidays to get their belongings stolen, while walking along the street.

The couple in their seventies were walking along Station Road at about 2.30am on Sunday, June 18, last, when a young man in what is being described as a  dark red car reached out and pulled the lady's handbag.

During the course of the aggravated theft, the woman was knocked to the ground and was subsequently hospitalised. She has since been released.

There were toiletries and a small amount of cash in the bag.