One of Ireland's best known broadcasting journalists was mugged in Edinburgh while covering the Scottish referendum. RTE presenter Philip Boucher Hayes had to hand over his recording equipment.

Then he agreed to pay £200 to the muggers to recover it. In a tweet about the incident he wrote: "Was told I was 'lucky you're not English.'"

The radio reporter told Dublin's Herald newspaper that he had "a bruised ego and a sore jaw" but was "grand otherwise". The mugging happened in Niddrie, a suburb of Edinburgh.

Sources: Irish Independent