The incident forced them to leave the propertyA garda spokesperson said that gardai were alerted to the alleged burglary on Talbot Street at around 12.20am on Sunday, February 16.
Gardai also confirmed that investigations into the incident remain ongoing.
A man who works at the Airbnb in Dublin, Connell, said that the women were watching TV when the masked man broke in, leaving them “traumatised”.
He told RTE Radio One’s Liveline: “We got a text message to the house manager going: ‘There’s a man who has broken into the garden area, got into the kitchen’, and the American girls all barricaded themselves into the bedroom.
