Lives of 23 women killed in the month of April remembered

Nicola Sweeney from Cork was murdered in April 2002.

The lives of 23 women who have been killed in the month of April over the past 25 years were remembered at the Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality, on sexual, domestic and gender-based violence.

The women, including Nicola Sweeney from Cork, Irene White from Louth, Clare woman Emer O’Loughlin and Rose Patterson from Clonakilty, Co Cork, were named by Fine Gael’s Equality spokeswoman Jennifer Carroll MacNeill during the hearing.