Empowerment of teenage girls is best chance to halt predatory men

Young girls in Ireland have always been and still are the object of male desire. They must be empowered to deal with unwanted attention, writes Victoria White

THE year I turned 16, older men were all over me. This isn’t something I’ve “addressed” in my life, as the expression goes. It’s just a fact I remember with repugnance.

Under what is now a hail of horror stories about older men and young girls — or a boy in the allegation made against the actor Kevin Spacey — I realise that some of what I experienced at 16 and 17 could be categorised as abuse.