Ciara Mangan: Tinkering with the sex offenders register distracts from the real issues for victims

Ciara Mangan waived her anonymity so that her rapist would be named. While she is in favour of a public sex offenders register, the judicial system's problems go far deeper

Shane Noonan had been working with the victim when he raped her in 2013 during a house party.

The recent commitment by Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan to examine a publicly available sex offenders register was a welcome one for victims.

The shortcomings of the register as it currently stands in Ireland lead us back to a familiar place, where the onus is placed on victims of sexual crimes to compensate for a judicial system not set up for those at its core.