Meanwhile, legislation to establish a publicly accessible register of individuals convicted of serious domestic violence offences is due to pass through the Oireachtas this week to be sent on to the President to sign into law.<\/p>\n
Jennie\u2019s Law<\/a> (the Domestic Violence Judgments Register Bill), which has been named in honour of Jennifer Poole who was murdered by her ex-partner in 2021, will see the names of those convicted published on the Courts Service website, with survivors required to provide consent before the convicted person can be named.<\/p>\n However, citing other laws in relation to stalking and non-fatal strangulation, Ms Carroll MacNeill said politicians, garda\u00ed, the HSE, and other bodies have a role to play in protecting women, but the issue of gender-based violence will always remain until the attitude of men changes.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of those other things are important and, yes, we\u2019re always going to need to change and update legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n “But it\u2019s not about garda\u00ed on the street. It\u2019s the violence that\u2019s perpetrated, intimate partner violence.\u201d<\/p>\n In the wake of the murder of Ashling Murphy<\/a> in 2022, Ms Carroll MacNeill began reading the names of women who have been violently killed in Ireland into the D\u00e1il record each month to draw attention to domestic and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n Since then, 40 women have died violently in Ireland.<\/p>\n \u201cNothing has changed because men continue to hit and kill their partners; that\u2019s the stark reality of all this,\u201d Ms MacNeill said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can have all the education that we like in relationship and sex education; We can have all of the different penalties; We can have all of the different prison spaces \u2014 but at some point we stop becoming responsible:\u00a0<\/p>\n \n Men need to stop beating the bejesus out of their partners. A lot of it comes down to that. When is that going to stop?\n <\/p>\n “So many of the women whose names I read out in the D\u00e1il were killed ultimately by their intimate partners or their ex-intimate partners, and that is the real danger to women who are so much more vulnerable in their beds than they are walking in any street in Ireland. It’s not right.”<\/p>\n She suggested that the “toxic manosphere” and other “explanatory factors” are sometimes given, when in reality there is no excuse for gender-based violence.<\/p>\n “The idea that anybody in a relationship thinks that they can raise their fist, raise the palm of their hand, or rape or assault their partner needs a serious reality check.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The difficulty for women is that these instances of violence, sometimes in a manipulative or coercive relationship, get let go.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Women feel that they can’t talk to people about it because they don’t want to upset them; maybe they feel that they won’t be believed.\u00a0<\/p>\n “And so they absorb it, and they keep going, and they hope that something will be different.\u00a0<\/p>\n “They hope that won’t happen again. The reality is it does happen again, and that’s the cycle that we see.”<\/p>\n![\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5153906_27_articleinlinemobile_CC_20ASHLING_20ANNIVERSARY2_1_.jpg\" "\\"")
Ashling Murphy was murdered by Jozef Puska in 2022 as she exercised outside Tullamore, Co Offaly. Picture: Colin Keegan\/Collins<\/p>\n