Men force pensioner to hand over cash

GARDAÍ are searching for two men who threatened a pensioner with violence and forced him to hand over money he was keeping in his home.

The men burst into the 78-year-old man’s home in a Cork suburb at around 10.30am yesterday and forced him to hand over the cash. A senior garda spokesman declined to reveal the amount of money stolen, but pleaded with elderly people not to remove their money from the banks.

It is believed that more and more pensioners are doing this because of the current financial uncertainty.