Hi again, only just see you posted this as well.
There are a number of places you can contact for information.
CIC again, and within the CIC there is FLAK, it is free legal advice, they can go through the process of what you have to do. I tried to look for a number for you but i couldn't find one. The dublin number is 01-4735178, maybe if you give them a ring they can give you some info or even a number for closer to where you are.
There is also a place called Treois, again in dublin but at least you can get some info. They wern't able to help in my situation but gave me some brilliant advice. There number is 01-6700120.
Make sure what ever you do you get a solicitor, i made the mistake of thinking i didn't need one, and well i lost and now I'm having to appeal. It can sometimes take a while but if it is an emergency then you can get help pretty quick. I contact them on thursday and i'm going into them on tuesday and i will be walking out with a list of legal aid solicitors to contact and all the paperwork i need. You and yours children's safety are the very important so you should be helped straight away.
I haven't done much research in this section myself, but i know someone that did. She didn't need statements from anyone, she went in said what she had to say and the barring order was made. Also helped that the other side didn't even bother to turn up to court.
I found out that just bringing a statement that was made is not good enough, even with a case number, find out who the guard was that you dealt with and contact them and ask them to appear in court for you. Same with your children as well. In my case i was in court on the tuesday and the judge asked to see the children. He saw them at 12.45pm on the wednesday when the morning criminal cases had been finished. The place was empty apart from a few guards and the judges clerk. And the afternoon session wasn't taking place untill 2pm so there was no chance of them seeing any of the other side.
I'm not sure of the time scale from when you make an order concerning your situation. What you can do yourself to speed things up is go to the district court house and make an application yourself, you wont need to bring any paper work with you that day. At least then you will have a date and you can then contact a solicitor.
Every situation is different, even if i knew every single detail of your situation there is no way of knowing if supervised access will be ordered or even the barring order. I've learnt myself that anything can happen, and the other party could say anything, you just dont know. But if you have reports made to the police and your children have been witness, only in my opinion but i think you could very well get the barring order. The supervised access could be a bit more difficult. I have a very close friend that was battered black and blue for years. She got the barring order no problem but was refused the supervised access, the children wanted to see their father he had never hurt them, so they must of felt safe around him and he was very careful not to do anything in front of them, so the judge obviously thought he was no danger to them and he was allowed access to them with no supervision. Bleeding stupid i think, but like i said you have no way of knowing what will happened.
Hope things work out for you xx
EDIT: oh yeah i just thought of something else as well just incase you didn't know. Family court is held in the district court, where i was it was criminal in the morning and family in the afternoon. You will all enter the court room and your names will be called so they who is and isn't there. But when they call the first case, every one that is not involved in the case has to leave the room. So it will only be you, the judge, the clerk, your solicitor, and the other side and their solicitor if they have one, and a guard will be in the court as well. No one else is allowed in, even if you bring someone to support you they will have to wait outside with everyone else. So it's not like you have to get up and tell your business in front of a load of strangers or someone thats having a nosey by turning up just to see who has been doing what.