{"id":475859,"date":"2026-05-31T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:06:39","slug":"woman-who-believes-ex-husband-watches-her-with-hidden-cameras-granted-protection-order-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475859\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who believes ex-husband watches her with \u2018hidden cameras\u2019 granted protection order \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who believed her ex-husband was using cameras to watch her and her children in their family home has been granted a protection order over the alleged \u201cconcerning behaviour\u201d. <\/p>\n

The woman, who attended the emergency domestic violence court at Dolphin House in Dublin on Friday, told Judge Gerard Furlong that she had recently divorced her husband, though they continue to live together.<\/p>\n

The house is being sold but her ex-husband is \u201cdelaying\u201d the process, she claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spend most of my time in my bedroom,\u201d she said, alleging that her ex-husband is \u201cemotionally abusing\u201d her and her children.<\/p>\n

The woman said she has had suspicions for two years that he has \u201chidden cameras in the house\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as me and the children go into the house, he rings the house phone and says to the children: \u2018You are just home.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She said when they came home on occasion in the past week she could hear her child\u2019s tone \u201cchange\u201d while on the phone, before overhearing them ask their father: \u201cHow do you know I\u2019m sitting on the couch?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told them he has cameras in the house and he was watching,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The woman said her ex-husband has emotionally, financially, sexually and physically assaulted her throughout their marriage.<\/p>\n

Furlong granted the woman a protection order, a temporary order until the matter is heard in full, describing the ex-husband\u2019s alleged behaviour as \u201cconcerning\u201d.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0\u2018She blames me for everything\u2019: Barring order against man who claims he slapped woman \u2018just once\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

She was one of two women on Friday morning who told of having to continue living with their allegedly abusive former partners.<\/p>\n

Another woman who was granted a protection order had also recently divorced. She told the judge she has had to lock her bedroom door and take refuge in her en suite from her ex-husband.<\/p>\n

She told Furlong of a series of incidents in which her ex-husband refused to leave her room.<\/p>\n

Noting that the woman was continuing to live with her ex-husband until the family home is sold, the judge said it was an \u201cunfortunate situation, but a fact of life at the moment in most cases\u201d.<\/p>\n

In another case, a woman who recently came to Ireland with her husband was granted a protection order after the judge heard he \u201cpunched\u201d her in the face.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy face was swollen for a week,\u201d she said. Around the same time, he had \u201cslapped me a few times and ran after me,\u201d she alleged.<\/p>\n

She reported the incident to garda\u00ed but asked that he not be arrested, she told the judge.<\/p>\n

She said he broke a piece of her jewellery on purpose earlier in the week, and subsequently hit her in the face when an argument ensued. After garda\u00ed arrived, she asked them not to arrest her husband.<\/p>\n

She told the judge he had threatened to get full custody of their young child, which \u201cscares\u201d her and \u201cstops me from taking action against him\u201d.<\/p>\n

After garda\u00ed left following the latest incident, she said he told her \u201cnothing would happen to him\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said the worst thing that would happen would be that they would deport him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Should he be deported, she claimed he told her: \u201cYou can\u2019t imagine what I\u2019m going to do to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman had applied for a protection order, which was granted \u201cwithout hesitation\u201d by the judge, who said he was \u201cvery worried about the level of abuse\u201d described.<\/p>\n

After hearing that a barring order was another option, which would see her husband removed from the family home, she said she is the sole worker in the household.<\/p>\n

He has been unemployed since he came to Ireland, she said, and would be unable to afford accommodation by himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m paying all the expenses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who believed her ex-husband was using cameras to watch her and her children in their family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-475859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475859","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=475859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475859\/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=475859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}