Funding imbalance

TOM KINDLON (Letters, October 17) correctly points out that “domestic violence is a terrible problem, but studies show it is not just women who suffer from it”.

Despite the fact that 29% of women and 26% of men suffer domestic abuse, while 13% of both men and women suffer physical abuse (source: National Crime Council 2005), the Amen group receives less than 1% of the funding available to women’s groups.

This indefensible discrimination against men is another form of gender inequality and creates further divisions between men and women.

Niamh McGrath

Administrator

Amen

Railway Street

Navan

Co Meath