When, at the emergency domestic violence court in Dolphin House, Dublin, Judge Gerard Furlong told the woman he hoped she would get 'a Christmas present' of more stable accommodation, she sobbed as she thanked him. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins
A distraught woman who said her ex-partner beat her so badly she bled from the ears and had to undergo brain scans in hospital has obtained a protection order.
The young woman told the court she and her three children have been in homeless accommodation for five years, and the man has pursued her to different shelters, sometimes turning up outside with baseball bats and hammers.
This had led to her and the childre
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