garda\u00ed<\/a> in recent days after she was verbally abusive to him when he was giving their children money for Christmas. He pays the mortgage, she \u201cpays nothing\u201d and he was concerned she had put a vehicle into the name of their teenage son and is driving it with no tax or insurance. <\/p>\nTheir daughter has had counselling due to her mother\u2019s drink and drug issues, he added.<\/p>\n
As he left court, the man said: \u201cFinally I\u2019ll have some peace for the kids for Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several ex-parte (one side only represented) applications before Judge Gerard Furlong on Friday were by parents seeking protection from their adult sons.<\/p>\n
One woman said she was \u201cextremely frightened\u201d of her son, aged in his 20s, who subjects herself and her adult daughter with special needs to violence, psychological abuse and intimidation. He had threatened her with knives, forcing her to lock herself into her bedroom for her own protection, and uses her bank card without her permission, she said.<\/p>\n
She is often too scared to leave the house because of his \u201csignificant mood swings\u201d. He has broken windows, damaged pipes and electrical items, cut wires and frequently carries weapons, she said. \u201cI feel trapped and unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her son has a mental health diagnosis and expresses paranoid beliefs, she said. He threatens to kill himself if she does not comply with his \u201cimpossible demands\u201d and garda\u00ed were called several times. She is recovering from a serious illness and needs protection for herself and her daughter, she said. <\/p>\n
The judge, granting an interim barring order, said he was \u201cabsolutely certain\u201d it was necessary. <\/p>\n
Another woman said her son, now in his 20s, began dealing weed from their home when he was aged 17 and appeared to have moved on to other drugs, perhaps heroin.<\/p>\n
She had seen bags of drugs in a shed at the house and reported it to garda\u00ed, she said. \u201cHe\u2019s well known to them, believe me.\u201d<\/p>\n
She and two other adult children, and a baby, live in the house and her son has threatened to burn it down and goes around kicking doors. \u201cI can\u2019t deal with it.\u201d <\/p>\n
In another application, a woman who said she was \u201cterrified\u201d of her ex-partner got a protection order. \u201cI\u2019m just afraid, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s next, he is so unpredictable,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
They separated about eight years ago but he recently came to her home, banging on the door and she and their teenage children were \u201cterrified he would get in and stab us\u201d. <\/p>\n
While on drugs and drinking, he tried to stab his mother and brother in their home, she said. He had gone to their child\u2019s school drunk, seeking to collect him before school was over. <\/p>\n
This was her third application for protection, the woman said. Garda\u00ed had sought to arrest her ex but she believed they had been unable to locate him.<\/p>\n
In another case, a man said he asked his wife for a divorce last month and believed she has since then been in contact with Women\u2019s Aid<\/a> and is \u201cbuilding a case\u201d against him based on \u201cfalse allegations\u201d. He believed she recently got a protection order against him but it had not yet been served. <\/p>\nHis wife is \u201cunpredictable\u201d, has mental health issues, suffered a breakdown in recent months and made threats to take her own life, he said. The judge said he would grant a protection order and hoped mediation might resolve some of the issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father said he will have \u201csome peace for the kids for Christmas\u201d after getting a protection order…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,615,61,60,43,97568],"class_list":{"0":"post-178978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-women-s-aid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}