Change needed before more women are affected by violence

IS IT unreasonable to have hoped to get through the first week of 2019 without two women being brutally murdered? We are so regularly exposed to the killing of, and violence against women, it’s a concern that it becomes a part of background noise — something that is undeniably tragic, but also a fact of life, writes Alison O’Connor.

There are a number of groups and organisations highlighting the related issues of violence against women and domestic violence, and no lack of media coverage of the shocking killings and attacks, not least the details subsequently released in court cases, but it just seems to gruesomely grind on.