{"id":337000,"date":"2026-03-09T14:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337000\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:05:09","slug":"pat-stacey-powerful-tg4-docuseries-reveals-how-irish-state-used-the-law-to-oppress-and-silence-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337000\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Stacey: Powerful TG4 docuseries reveals how Irish State used the law to oppress and silence women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018Ceartas Crua: Mn\u00e1 v An Dl\u00ed\u2019 (TG4)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"M\u00e1ir\u00edn de Burca, a founding member of the Irish Women\u2019s Liberation Movement, is a contributor. Photo:  TG4\/Midas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/de burca.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">M\u00e1ir\u00edn de Burca, a founding member of the Irish Women\u2019s Liberation Movement, is a contributor. Photo:  TG4\/Midas<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Here\u2019s a sobering thought: if, like me, you were married before 1990, you had the right to rape your wife without any fear of legal repercussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was only in 1990 that marital rape was declared a crime in this country. Changing a law, however, doesn\u2019t change attitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Ceartas Crua: Mn\u00e1 v An Dl\u00ed\u2019 (TG4) M\u00e1ir\u00edn de Burca, a founding member of the Irish Women\u2019s Liberation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9617,15337],"class_list":["post-337000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-stacey","tag-tg4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}