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Sean Murphy

FOUND: Hero irish shopkeeper in bermuda grabbed axe and robber soon changed his mind - You Need To See This

An Irish shopkeeper in Bermuda repelled a masked robber from his hardware store with an axe to protect his wife next door.

Michael Joseph Forde, from Mayo, said he usually has a hurley stick beside the till but he could not reach it, so he grabbed the hatchet.

The defiant ex-builder said: “I don’t care if they come in a tank. It’s our business and we are not handing it over.”

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