At Dublin District Family Court, judge Gerard Furlong granted the woman a protection order on an ex-parte basis prohibiting her father from using or threatening to use violence. This is specifically because I have work or school in the morning,” the woman told Dublin District Family Court. The woman, aged in her early 20s, said her father had been “extremely verbally abusive to me almost every single day”. Judge Gerard Furlong granted the woman a protection order on an ex-parte basis (one side represented only), which prohibits her father from using or threatening to use violence. Furlong granted the woman a protection order on an ex-parte basis and said she should report the alleged crime of distributing images without her consent to gardaí.

Source: The Irish Times March 22, 2026 15:13 UTC