Intolerable: Reinforced doors, panic buttons, and cameras needed for domestic violence centre

West Cork Women Against Violence is one of many organisations offering refuge to women and children in jeopardy.

It does not say anything unusual about our society that West Cork’s first safe house for women and children facing the threat of domestic violence will need state-of-the-art security with reinforced doors, panic buttons, and cameras.

It does, though, say something shocking. Domestic violence is and has always been a universal reality and the phenomena persists despite judicial and cultural sanctions.