LABOUR CONFERENCE: IRA rape victim ‘will not be silenced’

IRA rape victim Mairia Cahill has insisted that she will not be silenced and reiterated that the responsibility for the cover up of her abuse lies with Sinn Féin.

Receiving the James Larkin Thirst for Justice Award at the Labour Party’s national conference in Kerry at the weekend, Ms Cahill, launched another attack on Sinn Féin.

Ms Cahill, 33, says she was attacked as a teenager in 1997 and that republican paramilitaries conducted their own inquiry, subjecting her to interrogation and forcing her to confront her alleged attacker.