Hooded man armed with slash hook steals €1,500 from Post Office

A HOODED man armed with a slash hook robbed over €1,500 from a post office in West Cork and then took off in a car he stole from outside the premises.

That was the outline given by the prosecution of the allegation being made against Ian Horgan of 4, The Hermitage, Macroom, Co Cork, when he was put on trial yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Horgan denied charges of carrying out a robbery at Clondrohid post office on September 6, 2005, and stealing a car.