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I wrote earlier in the week on this platform about the deeply disturbing and undeniable trend evidenced by the data regarding the violent killings of women in Ireland and the increasing prevalence of foreign nationals convicted, charged or persons of interest in same.
In fact, as my esteemed colleague Fatima Gunning brought to my attention, the situation for 2024 is even worse than I thought. The man charged in the brutal murder of Mary Ward will be tried in this jurisdiction, and he is a Somali national, Ahmed Abdirahman, which means in 2024, where the person convicted, charged or publicly identified as a suspect in connection with the violent death of a woman or girl is known, four out of seven, or almost 60%, were reported as having been born outside Ireland.
In 2026, as I reported, every single man charged or suspected of all eight violent deaths meted out to women in the Republic was born abroad though the suspect in the dreadful killing of Noreen Daly claimed in his own description to be ‘Manhattan born, Irish blood.”
Yet all week, even as horrifying details continue to emerge regarding the murder of Jamey Carney in Killarney, the choreographed response of the entire political and media establishment has been to almost desperately insist that this trend is nothing to do with immigration despite the fact that, yet again, an asylum seeker is the chief suspect in her slaying.
It is difficult to escape the feeling that women have become collateral damage in the establishment’s wilfully blind and reckless love affair with migration. The endless denial and deflection is simply appalling – as if women don’t deserve protection if that might disturb the endless drumbeat insisting that diversity is always and only ever out strength.
No-one is seeking to claim, by the way, that there are other factors in violent crime against women and girls, but the disgustingly dishonest persistence of Official Ireland in insisting that immigration isn’t a factor at all shows exactly where women fall in their hierarchy of priorities.
Details continue to emerge regarding the only ‘person of interest’ according to Gardaí in the murder of Jamey Carey. The same Gardaí said earlier this week that for “legal reasons” they were not in a position to comment in detail about his age, name or nationality”. As I wrote, it was a “very strange manhunt indeed that doesn’t release a photo but then wants the public to help with inquiries.”
It appears that a provision of the International Protection Act 2015 which prohibits the identification of persons seeking asylum in Ireland was being relied on. Where is the outcry from groups such as the National Women’s Council, demanding that provision be immediately scrapped?
Where is the NWC et al in asking that women be protected against the clear and obvious threat that arises from allowing what is effectively an open borders situation to continue in this country? Where are the women’s groups demanding that we cease the pretence that all cultures are equal – and the even more insidious pretence that some cultures don’t, in fact, deny women even basic rights and punish those women who would stand up against violent misogyny.
Instead, all week, we have been having lectures from TDs in the Dáil, and sustained commentary on the airwaves which either ignores the elephant in the room or attacks anyone who raises the inconvenient truth that a deeply troubling number of the most violent acts against women involve migrants to this country. The poisonous comments of Ruth Coppinger are amongst the most egregious examples. Of course, when mná like the Women’s Coalition on Immigration did raise the issue, they were either ignored or attacked by the mainstream media.
It was reminiscent of the reaction of the same people to appalling, vicious murder of teacher and musician Ashling Murphy, who was stabbed to death by Jozef Puska, a Slovakian of Roma gypsy descent. They sought to turn the conversation and the focus solely to the inherent evil of men in general, and Irishmen in particular, rather than have any discussion at all on the troubling, visible rise in serious migrant crime, especially in relation to attacks on women.
That is not to say for a moment, that violence against women hasn’t always been an issue that should demand our urgent attention. As I have written repeatedly on these pages, some of the lenient sentencing handed down in the case of violent sexual assault and possession of child pornography can only be described as the very opposite of a deterrent, sending entirely the wrong message to perpetrators.
We have plenty of our own vicious, terrible criminals, rapists and murderers: no-one disputes that, and perhaps the conversation around rising rates of sexual violence and femicide needs to now ask why so much of what we are told is required to tackle the disturbing trends doesn’t seem to be working. The priority needs to be that women and girls are safe – and can access help when they are not.
But why are so many of our politicians, media platforms, and commentators determined to ignore the very obvious factor: the increasing number of rapes and violent murders of women carried out by immigrants to this country? It is as if they see a sort of hierarchy of protected classes – and protecting women and girls are simply not as important in their liberal-left mindset as ensuring immigrants rights.
And so now we are reading, with depressing regularity, terrible stories like that of the man suspected of the killing of Jamey Carney who was living in an IPAS centre in Killarney.
The people of Killarney protested the imposition of IPAS centres and warned against bringing large number of strangers to the town. They were ignored or called racist by all the people with the acceptable opinions.
Yet all we hear in the Dáil and on the airwaves is that misogyny and hatred of women is rampant in Irish society, while the frankly terrifying evidence regarding the impact of immigration on crime is studiously and carefully ignored.
It is appalling, and it can’t continue. Why is it left to Gript and a handful of TDs and independent, non publicly-funded media to point out the truth about the murder of woman and what has effectively become an establishment cover-up of the worst of violent migrant crime?
And now, the chief suspect in the murder of Jamey Carney has escaped the country – likely gone back to the country from which he was supposedly fleeing, and supposedly seeking asylum. Will he even be brought back for questioning? And are we going to simply accept this new reality for fear that a bought and paid-for media will call us names?
Last month, in the Irish Times, Mark Tighe accused Gript of having a headline that ‘screamed’ when I wrote “how much more imported violence are we meant to ignore” after Masumeh Manojan was murdered in a horror attack by her estranged Iranian husband, as if strong headlines were the problem rather than men who almost behead their innocent wives.
I’m not going to be shut up by anyone on this issue, and neither are an increasing number of Irish women who can see through the pretence and the deflection and are not willing to allow women continue to be collateral damage in the establishment’s dangerous obsession with increasing uncontrolled immigration into Ireland.
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