Why do we ignore Ireland’s rape problem?

We know that most rapists are a relative, friend or partner of their victim

Gardai at the Rape Crime Scene in Clondalkin last Thursday morning Pic: RollingNews.ie

Two men stood in the middle of the road. It was 3am. There were no cars, no people. Nothing but the empty football field hidden behind the clustered row of birch trees. They stopped walking and moved sideways, one on each side of the road.

For a nightmarish moment, everything crawled into slow motion before galloping fast- forward. Then it began.

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They ran ...