Vigil at Dáil recalls 78 women and 10 kids killed by domestic abuse

Seventy-eight pairs of women’s shoes and 10 pairs of children’s shoes were placed outside the gates of Leinster House yesterday.

They were a stark reminder of the women murdered by their partners or ex-partners since 1996 and the children killed alongside their mothers.

Women’s Aid yesterday held a minute’s silence outside Dáil Éireann to remember the “stolen lives”.