Who We Are
Síle Ní Dhubhghaill - Founder Member
Law Student | Community Activist | Music Teacher
Síle has worked on campaigns relating to women's health and women's rights, including convening her local Repeal the 8th campaign. She also founded an initiative to promote integration and cooperation between the local community and asylum seekers. A two-time election candidate and former political party national chairperson, Síle is now also doing a Barrister-at-Law degree and has become passionate about the difficulties faced by women survivors of domestic abuse and coercive control in the family law system.
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Susan Leahy- ADVISOR
Susan Leahy is a professor in the School of Law at the University of Limerick. She researches in the areas of sexual violence and domestic abuse and the rights of victims of crime. She is currently conducting a research study on survivors' lived experience of sexual offence trials. This research is funded by Research Ireland's COALESCE scheme, in conjunction with CUAN. Susan has lectured family law for over a decade and has published her research in this area in national and international journals. She is the director of the Centre for Crime Justice and Victim Studies (CCJVS) and co-founder and co-director of the All-Ireland Network for Sexual Violence Research (www.ainsvr.org).
Liosa McNamara - ADVISOR
Liosa is an activist, writer, blogger, film-maker and Feminist. Currently making a film on the effects of bias assessments on children of mother survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse.