rape

The defendants were acquitted of all charges, but the forty-two-day Belfast rape trial and its subsequent verdict, has had a profound effect on many, particularly those personally affected by sexual violence. Miriam Duffy, executive…

In the immediate aftermath of the Belfast case, the Irish Government announced plans to roll out consent classes in primary and secondary schools, and develop a new system for ‘vulnerable victims’ in sensitive cases. Underlying the well…

Louisa Fielden has built an impressive resume working behind-the-scenes in television and directing music videos and shorts in the past few years. Her latest work, the 17-minute People You May Know, has been selected to screen at this…

In 2002, I was eleven. As is fairly customary for eleven year olds, I went to a lot of birthday parties. Some of them were sleepovers. They tended to revolve around impersonating wrestlers, drinking gallons of coke, sharing a Silk Cut…

I started watching a Netflix Original series called Easy last week. It’s self-described as an “anthology that follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture” - each of the 8 stories in the…

I saw his friend dancing like a mime all night. I didn’t see him until I was flamingo-legged, waiting for my own cara. He approached me. I said Guten tag. He told me I was wrong: Morgen. Maybe I should add one more thing to the above list:…

You’ll have to excuse the article title if it’s misleading. I’m not trying to argue that misogyny only exists in the crazed imaginations of militant, man-hating, feminists; the kind of feminist that only exist in Milo Yiannopoulos’ mind.…

There used to be flyers hanging in UCD’s arts block that read ‘Drinking is not a crime. Rape is.’ The words screamed from the page, white on red background, beside an image of an unconscious woman with makeup smeared across her face.…

‘Susan’ worked as an escort on-and-off about four years before she met with Donal Lehane in a Dublin hotel on March 28th 2010. Both were travelling up to the capital that weekend. Lehane a self-employed accountant, married with three…

Dear Niamh, I am not one for writing open letters to journalists but here I am in reference to your piece “Count the shades of grey between seduction and violation.” 1. First, make sure you know the definitions of what you are talking…