“You’re creating a risk to the community really when you conduct behaviour like this” warns Carlow Garda

Defibrillator damage has been caused in a rural part of County Carlow.

The live-saving equipment for people of Ballymurphy, Borris was found on the ground with its storage box affected, while flower pots too were overturned and beer kegs strewn across the road.

All happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning and Sgt Conor Egan says the cost to life and the community can be huge;