Domestic violence - Appalling indictment

AS any uber-loyal member of Fianna Fáil will reassure you our economic crisis is a result of international events.

It is possible that some of them believe that but it must be true too that there are members of that party who realise that we have, to a spectacular degree, dug our own grave.

We are all aware of some of the consequences of our greed and blindness. Huge increases in unemployment, NAMA, empty apartments and houses, negative equity, personal debt, struggling mortgage holders losing homes and the coming cuts in public pay and spending.

Today we report on another consequence of our burst economy. We report that the recession has provoked a huge rise in domestic attacks on women.

Yet another shaming result of our greed and stupidity.