The application was heard at the emergency domestic violence court in Dolphin House, Dublin, on Friday. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins
A man who left his family home over alleged sustained physical and emotional abuse by his former partner, including knife cuts to his face and arms, got a protection order against her.
For a time he lied to members of his family over cuts to his face and arms, saying they were inflicted by another person when in fact they were inflicted by his partner, the man said.
“I was covering for her,” he told Judge Gerard Furlong at the emerge
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