Cork City Council and community gardaí from Mayfield applied for excluding orders that would effectively ban named youths — one as young as 12 — from roaming through housing estates in the Mayfield area of the city.

A rape victim who was due to give evidence in a criminal trial was threatened that, if the rapist was convicted, she would be dead within a week.

A rape victim due to give evidence in a criminal trial was put in fear by a woman who made intimidating comments to her in May 2011, before the trial began.