The Vanishing Triangle

by Claire McGowan

This throwaway comment made me think about how we judge women, how we are blamed for our own rapes and murders.

there no onus on these men, you know, not to do it?

It’s also estimated that suicide was under-reported by as much as 40 per cent in the past, because of the stigma – it remained a criminal offence in Ireland until 1993 (as opposed to 1961 in England).

Ireland has changed so much since the nineties. But, nonetheless, it has not changed enough. It’s still a country that reflects deep hatred and contempt towards women,