Family Law Court

Office worker in tears after stating ex-boyfriend has humiliated her by posting intimate profile online – ‘His only goal is to ruin my life’

A CLARE woman has broken down in tears in court after saying that her ex-boyfriend has shamed her and humiliated her by posting intimate photos of her on fake social media profile accounts he created. At the Family Law Court in Ennis, the office worker said that “I couldn’t leave the house” after the pictures …

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Judge says coercively controlled wife is in a situation ‘like falling in love with your kidnapper’

A JUDGE has remarked that a woman who was allegedly very coercively controlled by her husband in a very long marriage was in a situation of “falling in love with your kidnapper to a certain degree”. At the Family Law Court, Judge Alec Gabbett made his comment before granting the woman a Protection Order under …

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Interim barring order granted after mother found smoking crack cocaine while three year old son was at home

*The case has been adjourned to Thursday.  A JUDGE has granted an Interim Barring Order (IBO) to a man to have his wife, and mother of their children, removed from the family home after the man found her smoking crack cocaine with a pipe in their bedroom with their three year old boy present in …

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