Letters to the Editor: Is this really the best we can do for women?

We appear incapable of doing anything about our epidemic of violence

'The sight of a woman climbing onto a table at the World Snooker Championships bothered me far less than seeing someone throwing soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, but that’s only because I have a passing interest in art and none at all in snooker.'

Another American gun death. We shrug our shoulders, sympathetic but tired too of hearing about them. We scroll on with a small patronising shake of the head — the solution is so simple, if only they would see it.

And yet, closer to home, when I read about a 13-year-old boy’s brutal attack on a young woman in Cork (‘Boy (13) carried out violent sex attack on woman in Cork City’ 20/4/23) in what is yet another brutal attack in a seemingly endless stream of brutal attacks on women in this country — I couldn’t help but think that we too have our own epidemic of violence that we appear incapable of doing anything about. What of the role of the wider society?