Murder-suicide in Ireland last week - the invisible woman

[Dontfencemein]

This news story will soon fade out of sight, if it hasn't already done so. This article is well worth a read. Bless her soul and those of her children.

guardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/sep/01/how-a-murdered-woman-became-invisible-in-the-coverage-of-her-death

Or google "Her name was Clodagh"

I think the link got a but cut off there
Here it is - its worth reading

What an awful sad story, it's like she was nothing, is that all we are?

It was so upsetting. Everyone was talked about in relation to him. Even her own mother became 'his mother in law'. And then for him to be buried with them all after stabbing them to death - that was very, very distressing. The Irish custom of burying the dead very quickly might mean the wrong decision was made there.

Whenever something like this happens I wonder whether the woman involved had been on here, trying to get strangers to help her deal with a violent man.

Fixed link (I hope):
www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/sep/01/how-a-murdered-woman-became-invisible-in-the-coverage-of-her-death

Just noticed yougetme also linked.

(It's a reprint of Linnea Dunne's piece: Rest in peace, invisible woman. It's extremely worth reading, so I won't apologise for linking twice.)

In the first news I read I assumed she must have done it as the comments were all about how great he and the kids were. Totally bonkers coverage.

Everyone kept saying what a great man he was. Now I know it must have been a huge, huge shock to everyone but could someone not have said what a great woman she was, what great children they were?

There are two good threads on this, one in Craicnet and one in Feminism. Sorry can't link, am on phone.

But yeah the narrative emanating from this is all about what a brilliant dad he was, what a great pillar of the community and church, and how sad that he committed suicide. All about him.

Very little about the fact that he murdered his family.

And Clodagh has been as good as erased.

Very sobering event in many ways.

Sorry for dodgy link and thanks PausingFlatly and Yougetme for fixing it.

I am so glad you posted this. And very glad the Guardian have reposted the blog post. It is important.

This is so awful.

What can we do to get this changed and make sure victims are represented properly.

Another very good article about this here: granta.com/he-had-his-reasons/.