Woman in 20s dies after assualt in Limerick

[MerchantOfEnnis]

RIP. Another senseless act of aggression towards a female.

Woman in 20s dies after assault in Limerick city

A woman in her 20s has died after an assault in Limerick city this afternoon.

www.rte.ie

 

[dennisfallen]

Why do you bring gender into it? Men die from assaults too.
RIP to the poor woman.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Why do you bring gender into it? Men die from assaults too.
RIP to the poor woman.

I was quoting the headline that RTE used

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Very little about this in the media strangely.

The victim was a Romanian girl in her 20s and Gardai are searching for a male foreign national.

None of this is mentioned in the RTE article which you've to scroll a fair way down to find

Murder investigation into death of woman in Limerick

Gardaí have begun a murder investigation into the fatal stabbing of a woman in her 20s at an apartment in Limerick City.

www.rte.ie

 

[Matlock]

Very little about this in the media strangely.

The victim was a Romanian girl in her 20s and Gardai are searching for a male foreign national.

None of this is mentioned in the RTE article which you've to scroll a fair way down to find

Murder investigation into death of woman in Limerick

Gardaí have begun a murder investigation into the fatal stabbing of a woman in her 20s at an apartment in Limerick City.

www.rte.ie

Generally DV murders get less coverage than stranger murders

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Generally DV murders get less coverage than stranger murders

I didn't know what DV meant but I used my noggin and got it. Kinda proud of myself now tbh.

And good point well made tbf, I hadn't thought of that dynamic.

 

[flyingspud]

There probably won't be weeks of FB posts and candlelight vigils.

 

[Matlock]

There probably won't be weeks of FB posts and candlelight vigils.

Femicide in Ireland​

• 257 women have died violently between 1996-present*.
• 20 children have died in incidents where women have died violently.
• 164 women have been killed in their own homes (63%).
• 202 cases have been resolved (80%).
• 87% of women (where the case has been resolved) were killed by a man known to them. 13% of women were killed by a stranger.
• 1 in every 2 femicide victims is killed by a current or former male intimate partner (55% of resolved cases).
• Women of any age can be victims of Femicide. However, women under the age of 35 make up 50% of cases in Ireland.
• In almost all murder-suicide cases (22 out of 23) the killer was the woman’s partner.

Stranger murders are a lot more rare than DV murders. Hence they get more coverage.

 

[Eleven]

I think that's what a lot of people completely miss, women and children are more at risk in their own homes than from some random person on the street.

 

[Padraig Mor]

Judging by some of the reporting, this wasn't a DV murder. Perp doesn't seem to be Irish though so media don't care.