‘Going to bed hurt and waking angry’ achieved so much

But Fiona Doyle’s battle to improve how the system treats abuse victims is not over, says Mary Regan

ON Tuesday night, just 24 hours after being told her father would not be jailed for his crime of raping her throughout a decade of her childhood, Fiona Doyle, as she often does, cooked dinner for her children.

She was “distraught” and “heartbroken” that it had all come to nothing. That her father, Patrick O’Brien had walked free despite admitting to his crime while she remained a prisoner of the horrific sexual abuse that had held hostage to her childhood.