Ms Emer Neville:

It is happening everywhere. I personally know girls who have had images shared among the boys in that classroom. It is a big problem because the girls do not know how to report issues like that. There are statistics from the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland that show that 47% of adolescents did not know how to report sexual harassment. Therefore, they just do not do it. That is why so many women were not surprised when the Discord servers came out, because it was happening in schools. It is happening everywhere.

For example, teen discos are the worst things that ever happened to Irish society. Young women and men are being assaulted at those. Again, nobody knows how to report this. I do not believe there is a set system, like there would be at third level education. UCD recently launched one and so did UCC, but that does not exist at second level. When things like this happen, bouncers are not trained to stop it. They are not bystanders but they do not stop it. This again brings it back to the importance of the UCC bystander intervention, because it is not there. Adults do not even know how to stop situations like that. I personally know tens of women who have been assaulted at teen discos on the same night.