Comment: Investment needed to change attitudes towards consent and rape

Following international coverage of protests sparked by comments about a girl’s underwear during a rape trial first reported in the ‘Irish Examiner’, we ask a law expert and an activist to examine the issues.

Comment: Investment needed to change attitudes  towards consent and rape

Following international coverage of protests sparked by comments about a girl’s underwear during a rape trial first reported in the ‘Irish Examiner’, we ask a law expert and an activist to examine the issues.

This case offers an opportunity to re-evaluate our attitudes towards consent and rape, writes Susan Leahy.

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