Diary of a Gen Z Student: Being a young woman in Ireland - and those terrifying moments

"By the time I got to a crowded street, he had stopped following me. So I just kept walking, crying. I still wonder what I would have been able to do, if he had caught up with me. What might have happened."

"The fear experienced by women across this country is shameful."

Content warning: this column deals with themes of harassment and assault of a sexual and gendered nature.

I am a young woman. And that scares me sometimes.