'It looks pretty bleak' - Cork woman faces €26k legal bill for injunction against stalker

Laura O’Connell and former Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O’Brien had been victims of Sonya Egan's campaign of harassment

Laura O’Connell: 'The courts need to do much better for victims. It’s not just the legal fees, it’s all the health fees I’ve accrued as a result of what was done to me.' Picture: Cork Courts Limited

A woman who suffered a campaign of harassment and intimidation has had a judgment issued against her for legal costs she accrued in trying to restrain her harasser. 

Laura O’Connell is facing legal bills of €26,000 as a result of taking out a civil injunction against Sonya Egan, The Lawn, Lios Cara in Killeens, Co Cork, who has been jailed for two years for the campaign of harassment.