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"Sarah Flood has admitted that she expects viewers to be shocked by upcoming scenes in Fair City. Flood&amp;#039;s Suzanne Halpin will be seen attacking her husband Damien (Maclean Burke) with a snooker cue in a domestic abuse plot.  Speaking to RT\u00C9 Ten, Flood said that she thinks people will find the storyline tough to watch.  &amp;quot;I mean, it&amp;#039;s Damien and he is lying on the ground and she is beating him with the snooker cue,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;They were very hard scenes to play out and I think they will be quite upsetting to watch.&amp;quot; Flood also confessed that she was surprised by the violent twist and shocked at statistics she uncovered when researching the plot. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s certainly not something that is as common, that a wife should be physically abusive towards her husband,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;Obviously, it&amp;#039;s much more often the other way around. I was horrified to hear that since the recession, there has been a rise in the number of men who have been verbally and physically abused by their wives or partners because of issues with money.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a subject that a lot of people don&amp;#039;t take seriously. Some people don&amp;#039;t want to go to the Garda station to say they have been beaten up by their wife or partner and even some doctors don&amp;#039;t take it seriously.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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