A mum-of-two believes she suffered a heart attack from the stress of losing her life savings at the hands of a cowboy builder.
Mary Ring O’Flynn and her husband Colman have had to borrow more than €70,000 to try to repair the damage left behind by conman Simon Dominican Byrne on their property in Ranelagh, south Dublin.
After a two-month period Byrne left behind a leaking roof, live wires in the garden – which electrocuted a man.