The still missing women
Summer 1995 and London was fast draining of charm. In my last year at Middlesex University, a young psycho was sauntering about North London slashing women’s throats. Anthony Peter Roach, age 24, from...
View ArticleProtecting Women in Conflict – Ireland’s Role
“It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern conflict.” Major General Patrick Cammaert, former UN Peacekeeping Operation Commander in DRC. Yesterday, during a briefing...
View ArticleGuest post: Justice for All
The sentencing last week of Stephen “Rossi” Walsh for the sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl some 20 years ago is simply one of the dozens of crimes against women that pass through the Central...
View ArticleSisters Doin’ It For Each Other
A few years ago a good friend of mine talked me out of my customary sloth and into agreeing to run the mini marathon with her. Seems a work colleague of hers was involved with a charity called Ruhama...
View ArticleThe most abused four-letter word of all
THE four-letter word I most dislike begins with a ‘C’. We’ve already had that debate on this blog. But the most abused and misused four-letter word I can think of is ‘rape’. There was a time, not too...
View ArticleWe’ll fix that with a dose of… rape?
Here’s a bizarre dichotomy to consider: corrective rape. Yes, raping a person to make them see the error of their ways. I wish I could tell you I’d made it up, but it seems it’s all the rage at home,...
View Article“I Do So Love A Bad Boy!”
There’s a delightful video doing the rounds this last couple of weeks – a cover version of Chris Brown’s Look At Me Now by a band called Karmin, notable because Karmin singer Amy Heidemann does an...
View ArticleHolidays, children and The McCanns
Four weeks ago today, as a sunny Sunday came to a close, I sat in the restaurant of a hotel in Clare. Perched on a clifftop, the view was of huge Atlantic waves crashing on the beach, the surfers long...
View ArticleA Shock to the System
Down These Green Streets is a new collection of short stories and non-fiction from Irish crime writers, edited by Declan Burke. In this extract, Anti-Room writer and crime novelist Arlene Hunt talks...
View ArticleThe Female Fate
I’ve just started reading a book. Normally, I would wait until I’d finished reading a book before offering it – and my thoughts on it – up for you to consider. But I feel this book deals with such an...
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