Eleanor Doyle

And this mum, we're afraid of him.

We don't want to visit him.

So then I got a letter from his solicitor saying that he wanted visitation rights and whatever.

Now, I hadn't got a euro off him, nor did I want it.

And there was a court date set.

And at this stage now, I had the safety and protection order from

against him because he had threatened to petrol bomb the house.

He was going to do X, Y and Z. So I slept on the couch for about a year and a half because I said the first point of contact is the door or the letterbox.

At least I'll be here and I can run up and grab the kids and get out of the house.

So we went to court anyway and he wanted visitation rights and whatever and he was granted that under supervision.

His father had to supervise the visits.

So I used to drop the three of them down on a Sunday, whatever time it was, two to four.

And I used to have claw marks, nail marks in my arms from them, screaming and roaring.

And I used to be trying to push them off me and I used to open the gate and I used to push them in the gate and close it and run.

And I had to do that because it was a court order.

And I, if I didn't, I didn't know what was going to happen.

And then it was my second, my eldest daughter's communion.

I always said I'd be fair.

So I said that the day of her communion, that he could come to the church, that he could take his photos with her, with his family, and that I would like to have her the day of her communion and that he could have her the following day.

That was fine.