Irish Teacher: Why  schools must address sex and pornography at primary level

Jennifer Horgan on how the state curtails the educators when it comes to conversations about relationships, consent, and sex.

Jennifer Horgan: I hate how Ireland hates women. Picture: Larry Cummins

During an interview in New York, Irish writer Nuala O’Faolain commented that she both loved and hated Ireland. I feel the same. I love Ireland for many reasons. I love how we collectively mourn the deaths of our poets and musicians, how we laugh a lot, cry a lot too. I hate Ireland for one reason. I hate the way it hates women, and again and again and again the ways in which it fails to protect them.

How ceaseless the violence against Irish women and children has been across the decades.