Suzanne Harrington: Let's root out misogyny and legislate to make it a hate crime

Let Ashling Murphy's death galvanise us to legally protect women against male violence

As the family of Ashling Murphy are left with the unimaginable task of assimilating her murder into their family story, a catastrophic event that will forever divide their lives into before and after, let her death not slowly become for the rest of us just another woman killed by just another man.

Let us instead dig into the culture of hatred against women, a rotten deep-rooted hatred, and expose it to the light of why. Where it comes from, how it pervades, and how it continues to be propped up. Its depth and scope, its colluders and enablers.