Ógra Fianna Fáil, the youth wing of the Irish political party Fianna Fáil, has introduced a proposal to expand Irish Presidential voting rights to Irish citizens in Northern Ireland. Currently, only Irish citizens who are "ordinarily resident in Ireland" may vote in Ireland's Presidential elections.
Has rape culture reached Irish schools? Undoubtedly. Educators, legislators and parents over the water in the UK are scrambling to deal with the fall-out of the Everyone s Invited scandal, in which the alarming level of sexual violence in second- and third-level education has been exposed.
Thirteen thousand first-hand accounts of assaults have now been published - and counting.
It makes for heartbreaking reading. Young women, for it is mostly women, speak of being bullied, pressured, coerced and in some awful cases drugged and/or physically forced into an array of sexually exploitative situations, from sending intimate photos to penetrative sex. It paints a grim, dystopian picture - tech-faciliated sexual violence meets old-fashioned schoolyard savagery. Irish parents who had been looking forward with relish to packing their secondary school-age kids off again after three months at home will now be aware, with dismay, that it s only a matter of time until stories from our schools