The Vanishing Triangle

by Claire McGowan

How else could so many women vanish and never be found, in a small country where everyone knows everyone?

His brother had actually confessed to him in 2000, but it appears he didn’t tell the police this, or do anything about it, even when his brother started working at a youth club.

Perhaps these are stories about offender management, about sentencing for rape and manslaughter, about the failure of so many reports of sexual violence, about Ireland’s rape conviction rate, which has hovered around 1 per cent for years (North and South). About the lengths institutions

(the Church, the IRA, sporting clubs, even the police) will go to in order to protect men who matter to them, at the expense of women and children.