A 34-year-old electrician has been jailed for six years for attacking his ex-partner, her sister and her mother with a stun gun and a baseball bat.
Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said Aidan Horan, from Greenwood Estate, Togher in Cork, intended to do as much damage as possible during the attack.
The judge had heard graphic evidence of the lasting effects of the attack on the three women - 27-year-old Olive Newman, her mother Geraldine and her sister Fiona O'Flaherty.
Horan had been involved in what was described as an extremely violent relationship with Olive Newman. The couple have a two-year-old daughter but their relationship broke down because of the violence.
Ms Newman and her daughter returned to her parents' house in Mayfield in Cork.
On October 30, 2000, Horan arrived at the house and proceeded to attack the three women with the stun gun.
The court was told the force of the gun had knocked Geraldine Newman off a bed on which she had been lying, while Horan broke up the bedroom with his baseball bat.
Judge Ó Donnabháin described the attack as of the utmost severity, and he imposed jail sentences ranging from three to six years on Aidan Horan.
The judge noted that he had a propensity for violence which as yet was uncontrolled.
