Fathers4Justice campaigner explains why he stormed stage at Rose of Tralee

The man who sparked national headlines by storming the stage of Monday's Rose of Tralee broadcast on RTE says he did so to highlight the inequality and lack of rights facing fathers and fathers-to-be and to break the wall of silence surrounding an issue he believes should be a national scandal.

In an opinion piece for the Irish Examiner the founder of Fathers4Justice, Matt O'Connor, said his protest and what lay at the root of what he suggested would be an escalation of the Fathers4Justice campaign was the inequality facing men and fathers in the family courts, the stigma attached to many men following family breakdowns and the unfair nature of the existing child support system.