Gardai are appealing for witnesses, after a bank raid in central Dublin yesterday.

Two men dressed as construction workers made off with in the region of €20,000, after threatening staff at a Permanent TSB branch on Baggot Street at around twenty to one.

They'd been armed with what was described as a handgun and a crowbar. No-one was injured.

They left the bank and made their way through a crowd of pedestrians at the junction of Baggot Street Upper and Haddington Road.

They made their way towards Percy Place, where its believed a vehicle may have been waiting.

Gardai are asking anyone who saw the men, to get in touch with them at Irishtown or any Garda station.