{"id":48801,"date":"2025-09-07T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48801\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:11:07","slug":"woman-who-alleges-ex-boyfriend-threatened-her-life-granted-protection-order-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48801\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who alleges ex-boyfriend threatened her life granted protection order \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman\u2019s ex-boyfriend allegedly threatened her life, assaulted her and uploaded intimate images of her to the internet in a string of recent abusive incidents, a court has heard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The woman, who appeared before Judge Gerard Furlong at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/district-court\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/district-court\/\">Dublin District Family Court<\/a> on Friday, said she was seeking emergency protection from the court as she feared becoming \u201cjust another statistic\u201d, alluding to her ex-partner\u2019s alleged violence towards her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement to the court, the woman outlined various instances of emotional and physical abuse allegedly committed by her ex-partner. She said they were in a relationship for nine months in 2022, before later rekindling the relationship on a casual basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In one incident, the man showed up to her apartment drunk, before later allegedly assaulting her in her bed, leaving her bleeding and with a black eye. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In another alleged incident, the woman said her ex-partner accused her of sleeping with a friend and threatened to kill her if she did not give him the friend\u2019s name and address. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">She said she was avoiding relationships and friendships out of fear of what her ex-partner would do to people she is associated with. This has left her feeling isolated and fearful, she told the judge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">When the woman said her ex-partner allegedly posted intimate photos of her on a website, the judge advised her this would be a criminal offence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman said her ex-partner is very possessive and abuses alcohol and drugs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She told the judge she felt she needed to seek a court order because she feared becoming \u201cjust another statistic\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The judge granted the protection order sought while only the woman was represented in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a separate case, a mother was granted a temporary order banning her adult son from her home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The judge granted the order after hearing evidence of the man\u2019s severe schizophrenia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The mother said her son was off his medication, and the \u201cviolence in his head\u201d was getting \u201cworse and worse\u201d. \u201cI\u2019m very, very frightened of the things that he\u2019s saying,\u201d the woman told the judge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman told the judge that her son is technically homeless but has been staying at her house for some time. \u201cI can\u2019t cope with him any more, and it\u2019s having a terrible effect on my health,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge granted a short-term order banning the son from her house. Only the woman was represented in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In another case, a woman who alleged her ex-partner posted intimate photos of her online and threatened to burn out her car and home was granted a protection order. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The woman told the judge that her ex-partner, with whom she does not live, has a history of displaying abusive and controlling behaviour towards her, her family and her friends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Examples of this behaviour included leaving her voicemails threatening to burn out her home and car; kicking, punching and smashing things to incite fear in her; and recording videos of her in public to intimidate her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman also alleged that her ex-partner posted intimate photos of her on social media. The order sought was granted with only the woman represented in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">In another case a woman alleged the father of her child threatened, during an argument, to rape her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The woman said that during the altercation at her address the man threatened her with violence, saying he would stamp on her, smash up her home and rape her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman subsequently contacted garda\u00ed, who escorted the man from the property. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">She said she was seeking a protection order because of his threatening and abusive behaviour, and because he was \u201crough\u201d with their three-year-old daughter. The woman told the judge the child had been removed from her care by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tusla\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tusla\/\">Tusla<\/a>, the child and family agency, earlier in the week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The judge granted the woman the order sought on an ex-parte basis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman\u2019s ex-boyfriend allegedly threatened her life, assaulted her and uploaded intimate images of her to the internet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,19715,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,8504],"class_list":{"0":"post-48801","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-district-court","11":"tag-dublin","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-tusla"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48801","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=48801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}