Cork man jailed for breaching safety order in house divided with his ex partner

A man has been jailed for 14 days for breaching a safety order in what a judge described as “unusual” circumstances in which he lived in a different part of the same house as his ex-partner.

Kieran Hickey lives with his 92-year-old mother in an annex at Whitethorn Lodge, Schull Road, Skibbereen. Under the terms of the safety order issued on March 27, he must not enter the main house, where his former partner and children live, or cross the threshold of an interconnecting door between the two parts of the property.