Ursula Halligan : ’I have been in a prison since the age of 17’
Halligan has opened up about growing up in 1970s Ireland and hiding the fact she was a lesbian.
"I loved a girl and I knew that wasn't right; my mind was constantly plagued with the fear that I was a lesbian. I hated myself. I felt useless and worthless and very small and stupid. I had one option, and only one option. I would be "normal", and that meant locking myself in the closet and throwing away the key," she wrote in today's .
