Family lawyers could withdraw legal aid services within weeks<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n\u201cI can\u2019t even watch TV because he controls that. I can\u2019t continue to live like this, the relationship is over and has been for years. I\u2019m afraid to open the front door because I don\u2019t know what is waiting for me,\u201d she told Judge Gerard Furlong at the emergency domestic violence District Court at Dolphin House, Dublin, on Friday.<\/p>\n
Having noted a long history to the matter and that the woman had sought a protection order in 2007, the judge asked if she had considered seeking a barring order rather than another protection order. <\/p>\n
When she replied by saying \u201cI don\u2019t know how the law works\u201d, Furlong told her the available options included an interim barring order (IBO), which would mean the man having to leave the house pending the matter returning to court.<\/p>\n
Now weeping, the woman asked for an IBO, saying: \u201cI want him gone, I\u2019m walking on eggshells all the time.\u201d The judge said the evidence was her life was being \u201cmade impossible\u201d and she had depression as a result, so he would grant the IBO.<\/p>\n
In another of up to 30 applications under the Domestic Violence Act heard at the sitting, a mother got a three-year barring order against her son, aged in his early 40s, over alleged violent behaviour, including punching her teenage grandson and throwing a brick through a bedroom window of her home, shattering glass over her sleeping granddaughters. <\/p>\n
This type of behaviour had been going on since 2019 and she previously got protection orders over it, the woman said. Her son engaged in \u201cvery heavy\u201d use of drink and drugs, she said.<\/p>\n
The woman had the previous week obtained an IBO ex parte (one side represented) and her son did not attend when the matter returned before the judge on Friday.<\/p>\n
Two applications before the court were over alleged aggressive and threatening behaviour by adult sons, who are allegedly using synthetic cannabis vapes, which are illegal in Ireland. <\/p>\n
A mother said her son, aged in his 20s, demanded money on a near-daily basis and was verbally abusive and intimidating. The home environment was \u201cunsafe\u201d, he used drink and drugs, kept knives in his room, had mental health issues and they had found a box of synthetic cannabis vapes there, she said. \u201cThere is no peace at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a separate case, a father said his son, also in his 20s, repeatedly threatened him while seeking money for drugs and gambling and had become violent and mentally unstable. His son had a knife in his room and had threatened to use it against him, the man said. <\/p>\n
His son used synthetic cannabis vapes and was treated in hospital a few years ago due to heavy drug abuse, he said. His son had a mental disability, his problems are due to drug abuse, but he refused all treatment, he said. The situation was causing the family \u201cconstant stress\u201d. <\/p>\n
A woman who said her ex-husband previously \u201cbrutally\u201d assaulted her, requiring facial surgery, said she needed protection \u201curgently\u201d because a two-year safety order was about to expire. The man had continued to \u201cmonitor\u201d her, had sent her \u201cintimidating\u201d emails and she was afraid he \u201ccould kill me\u201d, she said. The judge granted her protection order application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A weeping woman who said she has been \u201cwalking on eggshells\u201d for years around her \u201cextremely controlling\u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5721,615,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-557235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-district-court","tag-dublin","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557235","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=557235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557235\/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=557235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}