Pensioner injured in hammer attack

A PENSIONER has been hit over the head with a hammer by a masked intruder who terrorised him in his home.

Gardaí yesterday appealed for witnesses to what they describe as “a despicable crime which could have had very serious consequences for the man, aged in his late 70s.”

The owner of the house, in Cork city’s Greenmount Crescent, woke to find the masked raider in his bedroom at approximately 1.20am on Saturday.