The Countess - Womens rights group in Ireland - Report on Immigration Effects on Women & Girls

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Irish people are being forced to accept policy that transgresses fundamental boundaries and treats nature, identity, culture, family, and nationality as negotiable when in fact, the family unit, community, and inherited culture are the scaffolding of a stable society. We at The Countess are unafraid of analysing policy through the lens of womens’ rights and child safeguarding.

thecountess.ie/a-new-campaign-a-new-direction-a-new-mission/

Report: Through a Safeguarding lens, darkly: a thematic report into the International Protection Provision in Ireland

The report has identified significant shifts in the nature of sexual violence across Europe, highlighting emergent trends in opportunistic street attacks and group-based sexual assaults. The findings raise urgent questions for Irish policymakers as the State continues to accommodate over 33,000 individuals in the International Protection system without screening them against European Crime databases.

Drawing on official statistics from multiple EU member states including Austria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Italy, and France, the report outlines clear evidence that foreign-born individuals are over-represented in sexual offence data, often by a factor of three to four, with even higher rates in specific subcategories such as gang rape.

Sounds like a brilliant piece of work. And I suddenly feel as though I now need to think more deeply/critically about news coverage which portrays those protesting about immigration hotels as right wing racists… all sounding awfully familiar…

Does anyone know if UK immigration stats are disaggregated to allow a similar comparison?

Heard about this via this podcast - very interesting and thoughtful discussion with Stella O’Malley:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/beyond-gender/id1795722610?i=1000746256883

it is awful that our politicians seem intent on sticking their heads in the sand about the risk of mass immigration. The people crossing the channel in small boats are not families or women and children, they are men. single men who have been raised in cultures that are quite backwards compared to ours. they have no respect for women and wherever they are housed women and children are immediately at risk of sexual assault. We have no idea of what trauma these men have been through-they are likely suffering themselves yet we have scant resources to help them. It is so wrong yet because they are claiming asylum they are prioritised for housing and healthcare-given free food and warm accommodation whilst everyone else has to work to earn a living. The protestors are not far right at all-they are terrified for their communities.

Years ago in leafy "D4 tractor" land the politicians proposed the Council buy a Conveny school ground to accommodate refugees who were homeless and could not self fund.

Its NDNs had a letter in before the ink was dry on the newspaper that the Council would see the NDN in court. Now the Council would have been lawfully approving its own planing application for a charity /the common good provision.

The suggested purchase died a swift silent death.

Money talks

This report breaks new ground by confronting the changing patterns of sexual crime in Europe from stranger assaults to group-based offending – and by insisting that Ireland can no longer operate without disaggregated, transparent data. We cannot respond effectively to evolving risks if we refuse to measure them honestly.

This really stood out to me. Find it uncomfortable to think about tbh but we can't afford to be squeamish. Agree about disaggregated, transparent data. UK & Ireland.

'The Countess' has taken an unexpected swerve into immigration issues, instead of focusing on women's rights in Ireland - gender ideology has such a firm hold on Irish legislation to the detriment of basic women's rights that it's bizarre for a women's group to change tack like this.

That men who are not Irish commit crimes against women is undeniable, but in doing they doing the same as the thousands of Irish men inflicting fear and damage and death on women and children.

I am astonished at the direction The Countess has taken, and I want nothing further to do with it. I no longer support it.

The irony is that The Countess is named after, and uses as its figurehead, Constance Georgine Gore-Booth who became a Countess by marrying a non-Irish unvetted migrant male of military age.

This makes me deeply uncomfortable but puts into a new light the protests outside asylum hotels. The young men coming into Europe are almost certainly deeply traumatised but also come from societies where women are not respected and have few rights. It does seem that Europe is walking into a huge problem, with fractures in sociey whilst those at the top, with their luxury beliefs and little contact with the world most citizens live in call the rest of us bigots or worse.

Since when does respect for anyone have anything to do with being allowed to travel?

I'd like to point out that there are four centres housing 'asylum seekers' within a few miles of where I live. That is the world that I am a citizen of. There was only one protest outside one of them, long after it had opened, and it looked 'copycat' as there were others going on elsewhere at the time. There have been no problems with the residents of the centres.

It is only a minority of places where the local community's reaction to the possibility of migrants being housed in their area was to burn down the building to make sure that it could never be used to house migrants - or for that matter for anything else ever again.

I 100% agree with you and I have also unsubscribed and will no longer donate. I'm shocked at this swerve in to right wing, anti-immigrant rhetoric. There is more than enough work to be done in terms of the erosion of women's rights. Adding what is basically a racist agenda will only alienate those of us who abhor those views.

Do I think every protestor at the rallies is a racist? No. Some have valid concerns about services and resources. However, I do think these protests are being used to push a racist agenda and that there is a racist undercurrent (at a minimum) at them.

I’ve never seen any good stats about those who commit sexual offences, the data is usually limited to those who are convicted. Which we all know is unfortunately a minority of those who offend.

I'm not sure why it's okay to assume people are criminals based on what country they come from...

What rights don't women have in Ireland? How does people being trans relate to that? Because if it's mostly about public toilets, that's a bit of a joke.

I'm sorry, how does the fact that she married an "unvetted" migrant change the reality that it looks like in places where they have the data, there may be fourfold gap in who is committing sexual assaults?

To say that they are just joining Irish men who do the same is... I mean the point is surely that if that is accurate, Irish men are not the same at all.

Calling for disaggregated data seems like a pretty moderate and reasonable response. I'm not sure why an accurate picture of what is going on with violent sexual assaults against women should be sacrificed so we don't need to say uncomfortable things about immigration.

What rights don't women have in Ireland?
Biological women as a group have no specific rights in Ireland.

In UK, [a] there were always exceptions to equality legislation on the basis of dignity, comfort, safety etc and [b] the UK Supreme Court asserted that 'sex' in equality legislation means biological sex.

In Ireland, the word 'sex' has been entirely replaced by the [ill-defined] word 'gender'. Sex is not a protected characteristic in Irish law. Women as a group have no specific protection in equality legislation.

The link to trans you ask about is that trans identifying men are fully accepted as women in the Irish legal system. There is a system of self-ID in operation, so any man can state that he is a woman, and there is nothing in equality law to prevent him from using women's facilities, taking part in women's groups, etc.

The word 'woman' in Irish legislation also means 'men'. In other words, it has lost its meaning in legislation.

That's a pretty basic right not to have: the right to a definition. It goes way beyond toilets.

And frankly, if there is no issue, there is no reason to fear what collecting more granular information will reveal, is there? Which makes me think that people suspect there is a gap but don't want the general public to be able to point to the numbers.

The fact that someone can claim to change sex simply by filling in a form has obvious impacts on women's rights. Women only spaces are no longer women only. That means that, for example, awards which were set up for women due to underrepresention in areas such as business etc are no longer women only. It means that in sport, a person who has undergone male puberty with its associated physiological advantages can take a woman's place on a podium or team. It means that women's refuges /hostels are no longer single sex leading to physical and emotional risks to women (see Paddy O'Gormsn's podcast where a resident refers to a fellow resident who dressed like a woman but punches like a man). It means thar a woman who may feel uncomfortable sharing showers with a naked person with a penis cannot object. It means that children are being socially transitioned with the increased liklihood of progressing to cross-sex hormones as opposed to desist within a couple of years as would normally happen. Donal O'shea, the endrocronologist with the national gender service, disagrees with social transitioning.

● Not to be forced to provide companionship to a violent homicidal would be rapist male.

● Not to be forced to provide companionship to a violent child rapist male.

● Not to be forced to provide companionship to a violent male.

● There are about 500 women who gave up their right to access publically funded womens health care as well as preganacy and maternity protections etc

A medic can be jailed for giving a man an abortion 20+ years.

Women and mother has a special meaning and those who qualify are directly recognised as having a contribution to the State these were reaffirmed by the citizens majority vote in 2024.

THE FAMILY
ARTICLE 41
1 1° The State recognises the Family as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.

2° The State, therefore, guarantees to protect the Family in its constitution and authority, as the necessary basis of social order and as indispensable to the welfare of the Nation and the State.

2 1° In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
2° The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.

A mother should not be forced to hand over her parental rights due to poverty.

The State was forced to recognise her right to the marital home.

Women have had various rights recognised and laws changed due to being recognised as women.

This may be prompted from the police action to remove convicted sex offender from the State.

https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/press-releases/2026/january/garda-national-immigration-bureau-removes-non-irish-national-sex-offenders-from-the-state-21st-january-2026.html

One of my core personal beliefs is that nothing should ever be above questioning. Ever.
In Ireland the Catholic Church had decades of being above questioning about things and look how they behaved.

The trans ideology got as far as it did because it was so hard to question. Many people kept silent when they saw so many careers being ruined and reputations tarnished.

The stats on sexual offences from countries that record it are eye opening. Irish men absolutely do commit all sorts of crimes including sexual crimes against women and children. There is absolutely no risk to me being labelled a bigot if I talk about those crimes. That for me is that danger here deciding that some things mustn’t be spoken about.

The other frustration I have is how so many people just either deliberately refuse to or just can’t understand statistics.
If group X are more likely do something then the general population that doesn’t need everyone from group x is a bloody criminal.

People can keep trying to prevent the uncontrollable conversations from happening but reality can only be ignored for so long.

Many progressives have gone so far left that the old liberal left and centrists now look like the far right to them. I miss the old left who cared about workers. I genuinely thought the left cared about people and feel betrayed by it tbh.

Oddly when I travel alone I take note of the culture I plop myself into.

I dont assume that the way I act and my cultural ques translate into that culture.

If the hotel staff are suggesting I use taxis or are worried about my late night walks I stop to find out why.

To not look at why young men sex offend and not ask if there may be cultural issues is the worst type of Western stupidity.

I agree. Also nor is feminism a belief system that is above questioning

Fairness in sports is it's own subject. It's not something that anyone is obligated to care about, because there are lots of controversies in sports about fairness and other things. I don't think it's bigoted to exclude trans women from women's sports, but but that doesn't make it a human rights issue, because playing sports professionally is in itself a privileged thing to begin with. And men and women using the same restroom should not be a rights issue. Feeling uncomfortable isn't justification, because people feel uncomfortable with all kinds of things. It's not a license for us to tell other people where to go in public, and feeling uncomfortable is not a human rights issue, obviously.

Even for something like prison, I don't think males should go into women's prisons, but it raises the question why sexual assault and rape are comparatively accepted and uncontroversial in same sex prisons. The mere idea of men possibly assaulting women in prison is treated as special, even though both men and women are already assaulted in prison anyway. Where is the emphasis about that having to stop? Male rape in particular is often treated as a joke, hence the "Don't drop the soap" comments.

No one is forcing you to stay with an abusive partner. Also, the latter parts of your comment are just complaints about how capitalism works, that affects everyone. Not just women.

I would say that the GRA split sex and gender into two sometimes conflicting states of being

So a female who has a GRC has removed herself from both sex and gender protections which are provided for women eg Cervical screening and abortion access.

And the GRA created the legal fiction of a female penis along with male humans birthing children.

I don't think there's anything wrong with looking at cultural issues. I said, more specifically that being from a culture with more notable bigotry in one way or another is not justification to deny people travelling. By this logic, it would be okay to deny legal migration too, because some of those legal travellers MIGHT be bad people.