Letters to the Editor: The Defence Forces’ abuse of women is shameful

Mickey Mouse in the 1928 animated short, ‘Steamboat Willie’ — the iconic character entered the public domain. Picture: Disney via AP

There was hardly a week that went by this past year without reference in the media to the sad and continually declining state of the Defence Forces.

However, the most deplorable narrative of all was written by the Defence Forces itself in the Independent Review Group’s findings, published last March, of a variety of abuses perpetrated, especially on female members. This was a totally self-inflicted mutilation that Lt Gen Sean Clancy, Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, said left him ashamed.