We owe it to rape survivors to admit the complicity of silence

Decades of inquiries and testimonies revealed one thing: That everybody knew. So the task ahead of us now is to challenge the Irish culture of denial, writes Dr Clíona Saidléar

As we reflect on a year that has been filled with extraordinary testimony and transformation, from the woman in the Belfast rape trial, to the women and their partners in the abortion referendum and the women of the cervical smear scandal, it is important we understand how survivor testimony causes change.