Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

If you do not have the right bus ticket in Belfast, you will be fined £50 by Translink. Yesterday, a Belfast court ruled that a young man had to pay £50 to his former partner for repeated horrifying assaults that included punching, headbutting and holding a knife to her throat. The sentence was suspended and a two-year restraining order was put in place. Just weeks after thousands joined protests down here to stand with Natasha O'Brien and to oppose misogyny in the courts, a significant crowd joined an emergency stand out in Belfast, organised by ROSA social feminist movement. Unfortunately, part of the shared island heritage is a heritage of both male violence against women and misogyny in the courts systems. With Stormont up and running and a new Government in Westminster, will the Taoiseach agree that all governments have a great deal of catching up to do and that this needs to be done quickly?

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