Mairéad Deevy BL

Barrister, trauma informed practice. “Coercive control is the perpetrator establishing in the mind of the victim the price of her resistance” - Dr. Evan Stark

[Debbie McCann @debbieatmos]

Multi-award-winning family law barrister @DrProudman has described the treatment of abused women in Irish family courts as a ‘ticking time bomb’ & ‘greatest scandal since the Magdalene laundries’ in this week's @IrishMailSunday

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@jakefitzsimons Purple represents the Irish suffragette movement, without which we would have four men in the above photo, possibly all wearing green.

[Prof Jane Monckton Smith OBE @JMoncktonSmith]

For those asking about the ten red flags for a staged homicide

1. Sudden unexpected or untimely death
2. Death appears to result from suicide or accident
3. One partner wanted to end the relationship
4. History of coercive control or domestic abuse
5. The person was found dead in a home or place of residence
6. The person was found by a current or former partner
7. Domestic abuse included non-fatal strangulation/suffocation/drowning
8. The current or former partner was the last person to see the victim alive
9. The partner or former partner had control of the scene before arrival of police
10. The body of the person was moved or the scene altered in some way

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@JMoncktonSmith As it should, the most important book I’ve ever read both personally and professionally, I recommend it to someone at least once a month

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@SheraFamily @DrJessTaylor Came here to say exactly this - we aren’t equipped to deal with it

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@DrJessTaylor I think in part is some sort of self-protective denial - if we were to acknowledge and accept the actual scale of child sexual abuse and domestic violence occuring, entire systems would collapse, so we silence it, and push back against those brave enough to speak out

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Feminists’ attitudes towards men – Six studies, in the most systematic examination yet of feminists’ actual and perceived attitudes toward men, find that feminists’ attitudes toward men are broadly positive and broadly similar to other people’s attitudes toward men.
Findings:
1/4

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@EmmaKCoates On this occasion, they’re very welcome to him

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@mcverin35980 @MiriamOCal Actually Bobby, the received wisdom is that female jurors tend to be harder on female victims, and defence lawyers (of which I am one) will often try to assemble predominantly female juries. So your argument makes zero sense.

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@tomdoorley Completely agree Tom, this headline is infuriatingly misleading, deliberately so. Rejecting an application to become a master because you don't attend court daily is legitimate; first year pupils need to gain enough experience of "being on their feet" in court.

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@RTE2 @SeamusDubsLFC What a legend 🤣

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@JSnollygoster @JMoncktonSmith I would also argue there is no such thing as an "empty" threat. Instilling in somebody the fear that you might one day seriously hurt or kill them in and of itself is devastating. Some end up taking their own lives. To suggest these threats are empty undermines their impact.

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@JSnollygoster @JMoncktonSmith You inadvertently raise an interesting point - our society and justice system considers it more important not to punish those who have made empty threats than to protect the victim of the threat that proves not to be empty. Jane's work helps to challenge this.

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

“We know that a predicted factor for recovery from abuse is that, when they make an allegation, they are believed… To expose the child to that person, particularly if they have alleged abuse, tells them that the world is not a safe place.”

[SiSi @survivorsinform]

Revealed: Children removed from family home subjected to controversial 'immersion therapy' - Thank you ⁦@PeterMcGuireIE⁩ - We continue to hear more horror stories every day #FamilyCourt #ZeroTolerance #Survivors https://t.co/fSxT8r0pBN

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Taoiseach Simon Harris has said he is not satisfied with how the Defence Forces have handled the case of a soldier who viciously assaulted a woman https://t.co/GSQVtll2Jr

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@tarotcat @JaneyGodley You win the internet today 🤣

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@judeeferguson @JMoncktonSmith The judge also lacks understanding of what a red flag this is for this man’s future danger to society, particularly women and most especially any intimate partners

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@cynimhurchu @fiannafailparty No better woman for the job Cynthia!

[Mairéad Deevy BL @DivaDeevs]

@RTEsport @RTE2 @RTEplayer Your news reporter got her time wrong, said a PB of 51.9 which is miles off 🙄