The National Women’s Council has called on the Government to carry out a comprehensive review of femicides in Ireland. “These two young women were going about usual every day things, there’s nothing they could have done to prevent what happened,” said Ms O’Connor. Cultural shiftChristina Sherlock from Women’s Aid says a cultural shift is urgently needed to reduce the number of women being killed by men they know. The focus must be educating young men from an early age. “You could see men responding in a threatened way, in a way that they feel under scrutiny and being blamed.

Source: The Irish Times May 22, 2018 18:49 UTC