Mother needs advice

BizziLizzi

Hi everyone.
I am in a dispute with my daughter's Father at the moment.We had her 3years ago when I was 18 and he 22.He came to live in my parents house in Galway (he is from Tipp)when she was born.I know this is wrong,but as we did not put his name on the birth cert as he told me I could claim lone parent allowance to help us in our struggling situation as he was unemployed and I working 10hours a week in a hairdressers,untrained.
I worked my way up to more hours in the salon while he smoked weed and slept while my mother did most of the looking after my daughter when I was working (my mother unaware of his habit).
We split a year ago as I saw that he had a bad hold over me and he never intended to find a job or do anything constructive.
I have never stopped him from seeing his daughter but he would expect me to drive her to Tipp so he could spend time with her,go away and come back for her a couple of days later.
He has now turned even nastier to me,his family screaming at me in front of my 3year old.I'm worried about my daughter when she is with him but I don't want to stop her from knowing her father.
I need serious advice please and thank you to all!

Esoteric_

Well, if he's smoking weed, I hope he's not smoking it while he child is in his care. Tbh, the only thing you can do is see legal advice. Talk to citizens information and look into free legal aid too, so you can set up visitation and that sort of thing.

FreudianSlippers

No legal advice as per charter.