NI has either the highest, or 2nd highest rate of femicide in Western Europe.
The stats are unclear because some stats are about 'killing of women by intimate partner' whereas of course women are also killed by men who are not their intimate partner, just being a random representative of the female sex is a death sentence for some women.
There does seem to be a willingness in NI to name femicide and male violence against women as being male violence against women, across the border in the republic there seems to be an unwritten rule that you are not allowed make men look bad by mentioning the awkward fact that they are the perpetrators in the vast majority of cases, and the victims in very few.
So we get lots of talk about 'gender-based violence' 'people' 'victims' 'men are victims too' etc. - even a RCC reaction to the Pelicot case managed to get almost to the end without ever mentioning the words 'women' or 'men', it was all about 'victims of sexual violence' and 'people' using crisis services.
In fairness, the writer returned to reality in the last couple of paras and mentioned girls and women, but it was a surprise to see even this brief placing of the responsibility for male violence on males.
The man in this case threatened to kill his neighbour
"She said she would stab the neighbour and feel happy about it,"
and if he had gone through with it, the crime would have been recorded as committed by a woman!