Natasha O'Brien: 'It feels like I've been robbed of years of my life' 

The victim of a vicious assault finally received justice after a two-year battle but she tells Manon Gilbart that she is only now starting to heal

Natasha O'Brien speaks to the media on the street outside the Dail. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/ © RollingNews.ie

Natasha O’Brien wishes she would stop being asked about gender-based violence. She doesn't like being called a women’s rights activist. 

Yet these are the two terms she has been labelled with since she stood on the courthouse steps last summer and criticised the suspended sentence handed to her attacker.