Dr Gabrielle Colleran

Perpetration of violence towards women and girls, the Lewis is just one strand of what we experience every single day and night.

We shouldn't have to watch what we wear.

We shouldn't have to go down certain streets.

We shouldn't have to posture in a certain way.

We shouldn't have to make ourselves little, make ourselves small in moments in hope that we get down this laneway or this street or onto this tram

With our life intact, we just want to go home and have our tea.

It's a gender issue.

And when you turn around and say to me, oh, there's a group, like, that would be like a social observation where you would have, like, where you would have, like, almost not an equality, but you would have, like...

You would have behavioural ways, say in some countries, especially in Europe, where there is no... It's not all men, it's not all women.

There is a blend.

But for the most part, it is men.

And it's like we lose hope and it makes us sad when you turn around and say... I know you're spitting facts, you're spitting truth, but it's sort of like a little bit...

hard to take when you turn around and say, oh, there's two groups of women on the red line and they're doing this.

If you can see them and you know them, sort that out.

If you can see the same group and sort... But I'm talking in general, all over the city of Dublin and our other major cities, it trickles down into smaller towns and villages.

it's not the women.

And it's just, it screams a little too much, not all men, when you need to pull out the women card, because it's not, not even a large minority of women are behaving like this.

Those are, those are just, those are particulars.

You got, your gender has the general here.

And like, you can, please do not like have some sort of like a rejection or some sort of like, you cannot, if you're taking this personally yourself and,