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

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KnottyAuty · 24/01/2026 08:51

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?

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AnSolas · 26/01/2026 08:49

Dear Reader,

A cuppa is needed first.🤷‍♀️

Some history of Ireland and the Countess ...

https://thecountess.ie/about-us/

In 2014 a woman named Vicky Phelan was told she had advanced cervical cancer which earlier screening missed it was not until 2017 she found out that the error had been discovered but she had not been told.

She ended up suing and when offered a settlement with non-disclosure agreement but refused to sign it.

Her Court case (2017/2018) was reported nationally and other women were found to be in the same situation and were being forced into court by the HSE to prove their tests failed to detect their cancer.

https://221plus.ie/about-us/read-vickys-story/

By 2019 the public health scandal :

• the testing had a known (possible) preventable error and
• the HSE knew and made a choice not to directly inform the women (or family who survived her) whom they knew were mistested and
• the HSE were forcing dying women to launch Court cases

has forced the State to set up a public inquiry and allow women or her family to get an official finding without going to Court.

By late 2019 the TRAs (a TIF¹ claimed "leadership") wanted to be modern and "inclusive¹" and had sucessfully lobbied the HSE (Irish NHS) remove the word "woman" and replace it with “anyone with a cervix” in what is a woman only test for a woman only cancer.

¹ programme accessible and inclusive of everyone in the population
If the TIF had obtained a GRC she will have as a condition of issue agreed that the State would fully and only recognise her as a man. If so the HSE can not engage with her as a possible user of the programme and could not lawfully provide a Crevical Cancer test.

The HSE defended the removal of "woman" and the replacement by "a person with a (sometimes homicidal) body part:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/hse-defends-removing-references-to-women-in-online-cervical-cancer-information-1.4357438

Responding to the complaint, the HSE’s cervical cancer information service said it aimed to make the programme accessible and inclusive of everyone in the population

[ Dear Reader there are no penis checking processes only TIFs or NBtifs who may choose to ] ^

and to reduce health inequalities where possible.
......
It pointed to a recent example of “language revision” during the mychild.ie_ campaign, when “your child²”_

[ note Dear Reader a child]^

and “they”

[ note Dear Reader the correct english term for a child of unknown sex ] ^

were used in place of “he” or “she” in communications.

More here :
https://womensspaceireland.ie/posts/hse-inclusiveness-excludes-women-from-cervical-cancer-screening-information/

² the choice of "child" is so ironic and tone deaf.
The HSE decided not to inform Vicky nor the other women where there was known proven error. The HSE knew there were indications of Cervical Cancer and as a policy wrote to GPs asking them to choose if a women should be give information about her body.

Why not be inclusive and remove "woman" from a healthcare?

Be inclusive and remove "woman" from a healthcare which involves the removal of the cervix and radical hysterectomy?

"Where is the organisational learning the obligation to use plain clear English and Irish in healthcare ?"
asked women and so began The Countess public advocacy.

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2019/act/31/enacted/en/html

To make the 2019 Tribunal Act "accessible and inclusive of everyone in the population" would “anyone with a cervix” be an appropiate usage to replace the word "woman^"?

Or could that lead to some who qualify as "women" fail to qualify as a "body with a specific required body part"?

CERVICALCHECK TRIBUNAL ACT 2019
Definitions
[ ^some removed ]

2. In this Act—
“appropriate person” means—
(a) a relevant woman, or
(b) where a relevant woman has died, a dependant of the relevant woman concerned;

CervicalCheck” means the national cervical screening programme initiated in 2008 by the National Cancer Screening Service Board and, since the dissolution of the Board on 1 April 2010, provided by the Executive;

“claimant” means a person who makes a claim in accordance with section 11 ;

“dependant” has the meaning assigned to it by Part IV of the Act of 1961;

“Executive” means the Health Service Executive;

“relevant parties” means, in relation to a claim—
(a) the claimant,
(b) the Executive, and
(c) the cytology laboratory services ..

“relevant woman” means—
(a) a woman
(i) identified as part of the Review of Cervical Screening as having CervicalCheck cytology review findings that were discordant with those of the original cytology examination in relation to the woman concerned, or
(ii) whose cytology slides were sought, by the Review of Cervical Screening, to be re-examined as part of its review but where one or more of those slides could not be re-examined as part of that review by reason of circumstances beyond the control of the woman concerned,
or
(b) a woman who received a diagnosis of cervical cancer—
(i) who had a screening history through CervicalCheck,
(ii) whose diagnosis of cervical cancer was notified to CervicalCheck,
(iii) whose cytology slides were re-examined ... and
(iv) whose cytology review findings, following the re-examination in accordance with subparagraph (iii), were discordant with those of the original cytology examination in relation to the woman concerned;

“retrospective CervicalCheck cytology clinical audit” means the lookback clinical audit of cytology slides in relation to 1,482 woman carried out by CervicalCheck between 2008 and prior to 5 May 2018;

“Review of Cervical Screening” means the review commissioned by the Minister and conducted by a Clinical Expert Review Panel under the auspices of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of the results of screening tests of all woman who have developed cervical cancer since 2008 who participated in CervicalCheck;

Why were and are the Irish TRA not lobbying politicians to include women who choose to renounce her rights in healthcare and other legislation she excludes herself from?

Well they are.

TRA and allies are working to remove the word "woman" and replace it with a body part or a woman only body function.

Want period products funded by the State?
Be a bleeding woman person

Could it be that adding "men with a GRC" places a spotlight on the fundemental flaw that is the legal fiction that a human can change sex and that her cervix and her risk of cervical cancer remains the same?

Anyway .....

Specific to the topic of non-nationals involved in crime its clear data is being collected around criminal activity and that is being used to deport people

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-deport-33-eu-nationals-to-poland-and-lithuania-1857602.html

The operation was carried out by the Garda National Immigration Bureau and saw 20 of the deportees brought to the flight directly from the prisons where they were serving sentences.

Gardaí say the remaining 13 were “arrested and detained from communities across Ireland and were lodged in prison prior to their removal”.

Their convictions included sexual and domestic violence offences, drug crimes, organised retail and burglary crime and road traffic offences.

And

https://www.thejournal.ie/deportation-ireland-2-6937969-Jan2026/

The costs for the provision of the aircraft for this operation are €122,000 for a return flight.

Announcing the removal of the EU citizens, O’Callaghan said: “Restricting the right to freedom of movement is not a measure I take lightly, but there must be consequences if a person’s behaviour means they should no longer be entitled to access this privilege.

I will take action if our laws are not upheld and this includes enforcing removal orders for individuals who are a danger to society and to the people of Ireland.

House prices as a cost benchmark:
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-rppi/residentialpropertypriceindexaugust2025/

Women Prison places in Ireland as a cost and number benchmark:

Limerick (a mixed sex unit) is now 56 (up from 28ish³(?))
https://www.irishprisons.ie/prison/limerick-prison/

Dublin is now 146 (up from 110ish³(?))
https://www.irishprisons.ie/prison/dochas-centre/

³ 2019ish places.

And what aboutism Brazilians?

The vast majority who have applied to live in Ireland choose to make it their home and comply with Irish laws:
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2024/04/19/more-than-58000-brazilians-live-in-ireland-with-40-intending-to-stay/

The State has a clear policy to remove those who choose not to follow the law:
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0904/1531729-deportations-ireland/

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About Us

The Countess is a group of progressive women from all walks of life including doctors, lawyers and students. We are volunteer-led, self-funded and not affiliated with any political party or religion.

https://thecountess.ie/about-us

Grammarnut · 26/01/2026 09:24

Gridania · 24/01/2026 11:51

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

Lack of respect for others has nothing to do with being able to travel, as you say. But the point being made is that the host countries know little of the mostly young men who arrive on our borders. Incidents like the New Year sexual assaults in Germany do happen and since they mirrored treatment of women in demonstrations in Egypt at about the same time (all around the 'Arab Spring') that suggests it is cultural - and that becomes a problem for our societies. We have men who are dangerous, who rape and murder women etc (and the number of local men who do these things will be greater than the number of immigrants, because of demographics i.e. there are more German men in Germany than their are e.g. Syrian men) but by importing without checks men from more misogynistic cultures, who may have seen dreadful things done including sexual assaults on women, girls and young boys, in a war situation, we are importing unknown danger. Soldiers back from war are dangerous to their own populations if their trauma goes unnoticed, so we can expect civilians (but some may be irregular soldiers) to have the same problems - and we let them be unsupervised in a way that our own returning soldiers (mostly) are not.
Cue: a problem.

AnSolas · 26/01/2026 09:42

My post was reported

Anyway a part repost.....

Specific to the topic of non-nationals involved in crime its clear data is being collected around criminal activity amd that is being used to deport people

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-deport-33-eu-nationals-to-poland-and-lithuania-1857602.html

The operation was carried out by the Garda National Immigration Bureau and saw 20 of the deportees brought to the flight directly from the prisons where they were serving sentences.

Gardaí say the remaining 13 were “arrested and detained from communities across Ireland and were lodged in prison prior to their removal”.

Their convictions included sexual and domestic violence offences, drug crimes, organised retail and burglary crime and road traffic offences.

And

https://www.thejournal.ie/deportation-ireland-2-6937969-Jan2026/

The costs for the provision of the aircraft for this operation are €122,000 for a return flight.

Announcing the removal of the EU citizens, O’Callaghan said: “Restricting the right to freedom of movement is not a measure I take lightly, but there must be consequences if a person’s behaviour means they should no longer be entitled to access this privilege.

I will take action if our laws are not upheld and this includes enforcing removal orders for individuals who are a danger to society and to the people of Ireland.

House prices and a cost benchmark
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-rppi/residentialpropertypriceindexaugust2025/

Women Prison places in Ireland as a cost and number benchmark
Limerick (a mixed sex unit) is now 56 (up from 28ish³(?))
https://www.irishprisons.ie/prison/limerick-prison/

Dublin is now 146 (up from 110ish³(?))
https://www.irishprisons.ie/prison/dochas-centre/

³ 2019ish places.

Gardaí deport 33 EU nationals to Poland and Lithuania | BreakingNews

In a statement An Garda Síochána said the 31 men and two women ranged in age from their early 20s to their early 60s

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-deport-33-eu-nationals-to-poland-and-lithuania-1857602.html

AnSolas · 26/01/2026 18:00

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