A woman who alleges her husband assaulted, raped and threatened to kill and cause serious harm to her has told the Central Criminal Court that her husband appeared suddenly behind her as she walked into a supermarket and told her the next time he came, he would have a hammer.
The man, 42, has pleaded not guilty to seven offences which are alleged to have happened between May and August 2014.
He has pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife using a hammer on 7 August 2014.
The woman continued her evidence to the jury of 11 men and one woman at the Central Criminal Court.
She described how on 8 June 2014, her husband told her on the phone that he was coming to get her.
The next day she was driving into the car park at her work. She said she got out of her car to press the buzzer for the gate when she saw her husband running really quickly toward her.
She got back into the car and locked it - she said her husband was trying to get into the car.
A man who worked in the same place saw what was happening and afterwards asked her if she was alright.
On the same day she said her husband rang her and told her he knew where she was.
Later that day she went to a local supermarket. She said all of a sudden her husband appeared behind her.
She said he told her he knew everywhere she had been that day and everything she had done.
The court was told he said the next time he came, she would not see him coming, and that the next time he came he would have a hammer.
She said he followed her to the place where she was collecting her child and she heard him shouting at the manager that he wanted to know when she was dropping and collecting the child.
She said her child looked quite nervous about what was going on.
As she and her husband left the area and were both stopped at traffic lights, she said her husband moved his car forward and hit the back of her car.
She said she was not satisfied with the garda investigation into this incident.
She said her husband, who is not from Ireland, went abroad for a number of weeks.
She said he told her on the phone he was having her followed. She described being in a car park, where she was terrified there was someone waiting for her.
But she said she later believed he had turned on location services on her mobile phone and was using apps like 'Find my iPhone' to trace her. She said her husband returned at the beginning of August 2014.
She said she brought their child to see him. When she went to collect the child, her husband said he wanted to bring the child abroad.
She refused to discuss the issue in front of the child and she said she would not go to the flat where her husband was living to talk about it.
They arranged to meet in a city centre coffee shop the following day.
The woman said the conversation was short as the man said to her again that she was not leaving him.
As she went to go into another building, she said her husband grabbed her and told her she should stop all this barring order stuff because he was going to do her serious damage.
She said on 6 August, there was another argument on the phone, after the child told the man that they were going on holiday in Ireland for a week with the woman's family.
She said her husband screamed down the phone at her that he was "sick of this" and was going to "finish this tonight".
She told him she would call gardaí if he came to the house.
She confirmed to the jury that the following day, her husband hit her over the head with a hammer at her parents' house.
She was taken to hospital and her husband was taken to be interviewed by gardaí.
The man has pleaded guilty to that assault.
Yesterday the woman gave evidence about the alleged rape at the end of May 2014.
She told the court the man picked up a kitchen knife and told her he could cut her face open. He ordered her upstairs and told her to get into bed with him.
She said she did what he asked because she was afraid he was going to kill her.
The woman will be cross examined by lawyers for the man tomorrow.
