Father in €30k child maintenance arrears sent to the cells over Spain trip

Man told the court Barcelona trip 'had hardly cost me anything' as he was staying with a relative who had also paid for the flight

The court heard that days before the man’s trip to Barcelona, he had told a court that he had no money to pay maintenance towards his arrears.
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A judge sent a father, €30,000 in child maintenance arrears, to the cells after finding his “credibility is shot" following the production of Facebook photos in court of a trip he took to Barcelona.

At the family law court in Ennis, Judge Mary Larkin told the man that his credibility "has been completely and absolutely destroyed”.