'Violence towards us increases': Man pleads guilty to threatening to kill social worker in Cork

The social worker said: 'When your life is threatened, it shakes you to your core'

The social worker, who was employed with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, was involved in obtaining a care order to remove the man’s young relative and put them in care.

The words, “I’m going to end your life”, were heard over and over by a social worker when a man phoned her after a court case because he blamed her for his child being taken into care.

Detective Garda Dave Barry investigated the case where the accused man pleaded guilty to making the death threats and now faces sentencing.