Wexford has come out to support an 11-year-old strawberry seller after a roadside robbery left his cash box empty.
Conor Goucher was left shaken after a jeep pulled up beside his strawberry stand in Co Wexford.
While a girl kept the young boy distracted by asking him about his produce, a woman went behind Conor and stole €250 from his cash box.
Once Conor heard the floorboards of the shack squeaking, he turned and questioned the woman, who then drove off in the jeep.
Conor told Newstalk this morning: “The daughter got out of the car and started asking me all the prices and then the mother hopped out of the Jeep and went in and got all the money from the box.”
Luckily a passerby was able to help Conor alert the robbery to gardai.
He said: “I was just kind of left shaken. I didn’t know what to do.
“I just rang my mam and then a person walking by, she rang the gardai and they came out then.”
Left without his profits for the day, local businesses around the area have come out to support Conor and his strawberry stand.
Conor said: “A few of the hotels and all the cafes, they came out and bought strawberries from me and started doing strawberries and ice cream just to help me kind of.”
Conor said that he is now “feeling good” and is back selling at his stand on the roadside in Ferrybank, Co Wexford.
Despite his young age, Conor, who is going into sixth class at Castlebridge National School, set up his own business selling strawberries in the summer and potatoes in the winter.
Conor said that he is planning on being a businessman and going into entrepreneurship when he gets older.
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