‘Devious’ mum avoids jail by allowing shared custody

A “devious” mother of two avoided being sent to jail yesterday after bowing to a judge’s ultimatum that she allow the children’s father to see their children unsupervised.

At the family law court in Ennis yesterday, Judge Patrick Durcan said the woman “deserved to be sent to jail for the total contempt of an order of this court”. However, he that sending the woman to jail would not be in ease of her children.

Solicitor for the father, Shíofra Hassett said that substantial progress had been made in the mother agreeing to shared custody of the estranged couple’s two children.