{"id":19921,"date":"2025-08-24T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19921\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:00:07","slug":"man-has-exs-car-smashed-up-with-hatchet-family-court-hears-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19921\/","title":{"rendered":"Man has ex\u2019s car smashed up with hatchet, family court hears \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman\u2019s ex-partner was allegedly responsible for her car being smashed up with a hatchet in the early hours of the morning after previously threatening to kill her, a court has heard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman, who appeared before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-district-court\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-district-court\/\">Dublin District Family Court<\/a> on Friday seeking an emergency protection order, alleged the man threatened her life several weeks ago, and fears he will attack her home with petrol bombs. \u201cHe has access to stuff like that,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She alleged that early on Friday, two individuals wearing balaclavas came to her home and smashed up her car. She alleged her ex-partner was responsible for this. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman said that her ex-partner \u201cdoesn\u2019t bother\u201d seeing their baby girl, but said that she did not mind this. She said she was afraid of what he would do to the baby. \u201cI\u2019m terrified of him,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She also alleged he placed tracking devices on her car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge Cephas Power said he accepted the woman\u2019s car was damaged and granted the protection order sought. Only the woman was represented in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a separate case, the court heard that a woman whose adult son lives in accommodation at the back of her home and suffers from long-term psychiatric issues may pose a threat to her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman sought a protection order following an incident at her home where her son stabbed himself with a knife. The woman said that arising from her son\u2019s behaviour, counsellors and medical professionals have \u201cimpressed\u201d on her that her life may be in danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge noted a previous, separate incident where the woman\u2019s son followed her upstairs with a carving knife, trapping her in her bedroom. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman agreed her son suffers from long-standing psychiatric issues. She said she believes he has been referred for psychiatric care, but that she cannot get any further information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The granting of an order barring her son from her residence, the woman said, would effectively make him homeless. \u201cHe\u2019s got nowhere to go,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge Power granted the woman a protection order on an ex parte basis \u2013 where only the woman was present in court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In another case, a woman who alleged her husband hit her across the face and has threatened her with a knife was granted an order barring him from their rented home. The judge granted the short-term barring order with only the woman present in court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Also before Judge Power, a woman alleged her ex-partner kicked her front door in and proceeded to drink vodka at the house. The woman, who has three adult children with the man, had to call garda\u00ed, the court heard. The judge granted her a protection order on an ex parte basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman\u2019s ex-partner was allegedly responsible for her car being smashed up with a hatchet in the early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,8301,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-19921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dublin-district-court","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}