Society ‘can and must do better’ to end violence against women, says O’Neill Society “must and can do better” to work to end violence against women and girls, Northern Ireland’s First Minister has said.
Michelle O’Neill expressed her horror at the murder of seven women in the region in 2024 and vowed to press the Stormont Executive’s Ending Violence Against Women and Girls strategy.
But she said everyone in society shared a responsibility “to challenge the misogyny that enables such heinous crimes to persist”.
Ms O’Neill made history by becoming the first nationalist or republican to serve as first minister at Stormont.
Ms O’Neill noted that behind the death of each of the seven women were families “left shattered by grief”.
