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Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023): Réada Cronin: ...were shunned or bundled off to the local institution for fallen women. These women were not fallen; they were felled by hypocrisy, injustice, fear of the church and a pious State looking for a pat on the head from the same church for being good little Catholic politicians. Above all, they were felled by the patriarchy. I think of all the women and children who contacted me about the...

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