Clare man admits stalking after falsely branding two men as paedophiles on Facebook

Facebook post falsely identified two men as ‘sick paedos’, offered a €1,000 reward, and stated that 'cable ties and baseball bats are at hand'

43-year-old Martin Hannon of Tradaree Court, Shannon, at Ennis Court on Monday.  

One man fled Shannon in terror in his gym gear without his belongings while another man became a target of online hate and felt that there was a bounty on his head after they were both falsely identified as ‘sick paedos’ in a Facebook post, a court has heard.

At Ennis Circuit Court, the author of the ‘malicious’ Facebook post from November 2023, Martin Hannon, 43, of Tradaree Court, Shannon has pleaded guilty to a stalking offence from November 2 to 16, 2023, against the two innocent men.