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Emma Sheerin
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Sinn Féin MLA for Mid Ulster. Working every day to deliver a true Irish republic that everyone can thrive in. Love good food, good music and good books.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
    The women of Ireland are fed up. From our grandmothers, educated in Latin and the catechism, but not about menstruation, locked up whether they fell prey to a neighbour or ‘chose to commit a mortal sin’, as if either were crimes, as if they deserved a life in an institution.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    Of course it’s not all men. But it is all women. We are all fed up. The best legacy we can make for Ashling Murphy is to change the culture that allows these crimes. I hope the outpourings of grief across the country bring some comfort to her loved ones. May she be at peace.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jul 24, 2025
    A nice fella. He just can’t handle a drink. An absolute gentleman. What I seen of him. Yes yes the rumours…I heard that but sure you know yourself.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Oct 1, 2022
    ‘We need to bring these debates into the town halls, the community halls, the church halls, the orange halls’ Jimmy Nesbitt is a legend.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    She went out for a run. Exercising, it’s good for us. It was in a public place, in broad daylight. She did as she was told. It didn’t matter. Because it never matters. Because the victims are never to blame. It’s not our responsibility to make sure we’re not attacked.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    Those lucky enough to be ‘good girls’, what was their reward? A life locked to the kitchen sink. Caring for parents or child after child. A miscarriage? A stillbirth? No consecrated burial. ‘Don’t mourn your baby’ the priest said, but life begins at conception.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    And still they kept being murdered, raped & beaten. And still they kept being expected to change their behaviours. ‘She was drunk. Wore tight clothes. Was out alone.’ ‘What did she expect?’ ‘Rape’ written as ‘sex with an underage..’ ‘Victim’ was ‘intoxicated teenager’…
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    ‘He gave her a hammering’ the neighbours would remark. Nobody’s business, ‘he’s a nice fella’. ‘Why does she stay with him?’ a more enlightened friend might say, someone not horrified by divorce, ignorant of financial realities. ‘Why does he hit her?’ they forget to ask.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    The swinging sixties. Mini skirts and the pill. The pulpit still ruled. ‘She got herself in trouble’. Those who escaped the convents; the scrubbing brushes and the loss of their healthy, happy, baby, got whispers and judgement. Some fled. Boats to England. Secrets held forever.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    Now women had all the rights that men always had. Except of course, they were paid less. And their reproductive plans would affect their careers, and if they dared to have sex they’d be talked about. And they still had to do the ironing and the cooking and the hoovering.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    The eighties, the nineties. Our mothers. ‘What are women complaining about? They can vote and work and drive!’ ‘Badly hahaha’. Feminism was their joke. Now we had it all. ‘Abandon’ your children to work outside the home or ‘slob’ at home rearing them on someone else’s money.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    The 21st Century. Now we had sex education in school and a rudimentary understanding of periods. (Every 28 days, mild cramps, a tampon might give you TSS) What’s PCOS? Rape alarms in goodie bags. No lessons on what a healthy relationship consists of, no mention of consent.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jul 24, 2025
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    And it doesn’t matter if a woman was just going for a run and was set upon, met him in a bar and flirted with him all night, or stayed married to him for 30 years. She did not deserve it. No one, ever, deserves it.
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    Emma Sheerin
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    Jan 13, 2022
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    The dawn of social media. Brilliant. Now the guy in the corner of the office with the witty banter can abuse us from behind an anonymous profile. Politician made a decision? Look at what she is wearing! She’s ugly or she’s fat or she’s too skinny, actually.