Maeve Higgins: We have to face up to rape culture and misogyny in Ireland 

We see how Irish communities often treat women who come forward with the truth; we see their silence and complicity.
Maeve Higgins: We have to face up to rape culture and misogyny in Ireland 

Emily Watson and Paul Mescal in a scene from 'God's Creatures', a new film set in a fictional fishing village in Kerry. 

"Sometimes you need an outsider to see a world like this, a world that we know very intimately." 

Shane Crowley, a young screenwriter from Killorglin, Co Kerry, said that on stage at the Cannes Film Festival last month. Crowley was interviewed after a screening of God's Creatures, a new film set in a fictional fishing village in Kerry. 

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