Woman Safer On Street She Was Warned About Than In Her Own Home

A LOCAL WOMAN who spent her adult life being told never to walk down that street alone is statistically at her safest when not at home, WWN can confirm.

Advised from a young age to keep her keys between her fingers, to stay on the main road, to avoid the shortcut, and to never accept a drink she hadn’t watched being poured, she was at no point advised about her very own sitting room.

The woman, who was told she’d need more than that before gardaí could do anything, has yet to become the latest statistic, however depending on her future perpetrator’s passport, she sadly may never even trend in the news.

“Unfortunately, some murdered women are more murdered than others these days,” pointed out one researcher into Ireland’s latest growing phenomenon, “we can disguise it with words like domestic, tragedy, and phrases like isolated incident, but at the end of the day 87% of the women killed here since 1996, in the cases we’ve actually resolved, were murdered by a man who knew them – 186 of them died in their own homes.”

Family and friends who will later become experts in coercive control, and kick themselves over all the warning signs, have already read that femicide figures for 2026 have passed 2025’s total with five months still left.

“If only we’d acted on the warning signs sooner,” one well-meaning friend will say, having long since parked those signs as none of her business, and who will now live with that forever.

Meanwhile, the government has committed to zero tolerance of violence against women, and to a fraction of the refuge places required to demonstrate it.

“We just ask women living in Ireland to be vigilant, to stay in well-lit areas, and to avoid being at home,” an official statement concluded.

If you have been affected by anything in this article, Women’s Aid can be contacted 24 hours a day on 1800 341 900.