Pensioner ‘was subjected to terror in his home’

Standing outside the abandoned home of pensioner Michael McMahon, Councillor Bill Chambers remarked: “Michael was really happy here.”

At the small farmer’s former home in Cree in a remote part of west Clare yesterday, there was evidence of the two nights of terror that the 68-year-old endured almost two years ago.

The front window closest to the front door of the home remains boarded up with wood — one of the three windows smashed in the first night robbers called looking to rob Michael in Feb 2012.