House Tour: How influencer Aoife Mulvenna transformed this Belfast home with €3,500
House Tour: How influencer Aoife Mulvenna transformed this Belfast home with €3,500

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What to bake this weekend: Coffee and walnut pavlova with coffee-poached pears

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Saying you are a ‘stay-at-home-mum’ is the ultimate conversation stopper

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It’s hard to believe that this luxurious Ballsbridge home used to be an eye clinic

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Colourful kitchen tiles are our latest obsession, and these inspirational spaces prove why

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Inside this sleek Victorian terraced home in Ranelagh

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6 steps to improve your gut health, according to a gastroenterologist

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Streets, nightclubs, at home: There are no safe spaces left for women


by Kate Demolder
17th Nov 2021

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Needle spiking, taxi assaults, the shadow pandemic of domestic abuse – How are women supposed to feel safe?

The abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard while she walked through Clapham, south London, at 9pm on 3 March 2021, propelled the backing track of fear that the modern woman relentlessly experiences in public spaces. Social media imploded, rightfully, by way of timelines fit to burst with women distressed and worn by Sarah’s disappearance, backed up by a knowing feeling that it could have been them. Men have been kind. They’ve asked what they...

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