Richard Hogan: The culture of violence against women in Ireland — how do we deal with it?

As a society, we have to look at the messages we give our children — there seems to be absolutely zero political will to prevent our children from viewing women being tied up, dominated, choked, spat on, consent taken from them and beaten

Richard Hogan Photograph Moya Nolan

The conviction of Jozef Puska for the murder of Ashling Murphy, hopefully brings some semblance of closure for the grieving Murphy family and friends. 

That a beautiful, vibrant young girl, starting out in life with all her future dreams, could be so callously cut down by the depraved hand of a stranger, shocked the entire nation.