Irish Examiner view: We need a specific law against stalking

UCC report and the establishment of an Oireachtas taskforce underline how pervasive stalking and harassment have become

The courage of Stalking Ireland co-founders Una Ring and Eve McDowell, and the hell they were put through, ought to prompt our legislature to enact a law to deal with stalkers. File picture: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

A good deal of media attention has been paid in recent days to a landmark UCC report on stalking, and rightly so.

More than 1,000 people responded to a survey run by the report authors, Catherine O’Sullivan and Ciara Staunton. It found that most of the perpetrators who were identified were known by the victims, who reported being threatened, physically attacked, and sexually assaulted.