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The government just launched this major campaign to tackle 'disturbingly' high levels of harassment

Last year, 3,182 sex crimes were recorded by gardaí.

LAST UPDATE | 9 May 2019

IN AN EFFORT to tackle Ireland’s “disturbingly high levels” of sexual harassment, the Minister for Justice has launched a three-year national awareness ad campaign calling on the public to stop making excuses for sexual harassment and violence.

‘No Excuses’, which is part of the Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence 2016-2021, will feature TV, cinema, radio, outdoor, social and digital advertising with the initial ads looking at male and female perpetrators in a number of different scenarios. 

The campaign videos focus on scenarios such as sexual harassment in the workplace, unwanted physical attention at a bar and an attempt to expose someone in a locker room to an attempt to coerce a partner into unwanted sexual activity. 

“The aim of this campaign is to make the public question our responses to a range of sexual harassment and potential sexual violence scenarios.

“Research has shown that Ireland suffers from disturbingly high levels of sexual harassment and sexual violence. These ads highlight and help people recognise these behaviours and the many precursors to them,” Minister Charlie Flanagan said, adding that he hopes these ads will call on people to stop excusing sexual harassment and violence. 

Last year, 3,182 sex crimes were recorded by gardaí, a 26% increase on 2017.

Department of Justice & Equality / YouTube

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Flanagan hopes the campaign will make people consider the extent to which they excuse or explain away incidents of sexual harassment when they see them, scenarios which he says “are endemic in society”. 

Speaking at the launch of the campaign at the Department of Justice, Flanagan said there are a huge range of sexual behaviours which might be commonplace in society “but if commonplace, they’re certainly not acceptable”.

There’s a whole range of unacceptable behaviour which is perhaps going on all around us on a daily basis. We need to notice it. We need to focus on it. And we need to start calling it out in stark terms.

Paula Kelly of TBWA ad agency – a partner for the campaign – said the adverts are meant to demonstrate the extent to which people excuse everyday harassment. 

For the second advert which will run next week, TBWA carried out a series of focus groups asking people how the behaviour in the scenes of the first ad might be excused.

The reaction and excuses from the groups formed the basis of the second ad, with the aim of proving “how inadequate” those excuses are when overlayed with the scenes of harassment.

The excuses in the different scenarios ranged from ‘maybe he is pushing it, but she’s his partner’ to ‘maybe she’s one of those people that’s a bit touchy-feely at work’. 

Department of Justice & Equality / YouTube

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More details of the campaign can be found here

If you have been affected by domestic abuse or harassment and would like to talk, contact the below numbers or visit SafeIreland.ie.

  • Women’s Aid: 1800 341 900
  • Amen (for men): 046 902 3718
  • Cope Galway Domestic Abuse Service: 091 565 985 
  • The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre: 24-hour 1800 77 8888.

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    May 9th 2019, 10:46 AM

    it’s better than nothing however, a major role needs to be the tougher sentencing of those who suffer from sexual assaults, a teenage girl with autism gets defiled by teenage boys and goaded on by older boys, fully suspended sentences. I know sexual harrassment is different but we can punish people for those crimes.

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    May 9th 2019, 10:47 AM

    @Charles McGuire: can’t even

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    May 9th 2019, 1:16 PM

    Personally I think more emphasis should be put on people’s ability to deal with these incidents.

    Individual fortitude and situational awareness, before societal change, will be more effective in reducing the frequency and severity of harassment and assault.

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    May 9th 2019, 1:28 PM

    @Ooby Dooby: Sorry, you’re not allowed to say or think that. You will be dealt with accordingly and shunned from society for your crimes.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:01 PM

    @Ooby Dooby: how do you deal with someone coming up behind you and put their hands all over you? Should you never turn your back on anyone? How can you deal with a shithead in a locker room thinking it’s ok to pull your towel off? Give up playing sports?
    Some situations are easily enough avoided but so often these incidents happen in everyday situations and very unexpectedly and so cannot be avoided.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:17 PM

    @Jane: Personally I think both scenarios you describe demand a physical response. Any man who puts his hands on you deserves a good hard slap in the face along with a loud rebuke. I’ve seen this reaction before and it’s amazing how meek such men become when their behaviour is highlighted in such a public manner.
    I don’t see how you can avoid such things totally though unless you hide away from society.
    Government campaigns of this nature are a good thing but they have no effect on some people.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:21 PM

    @Ooby Dooby: I’m not against teaching people how to handle harassment situations however if you focus on that, you put the onus on people not to be assaulted which can contribute to victim blaming rather than holding the nasty people who harass and abuse accountable for their actions

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    May 9th 2019, 2:33 PM

    @Del Bear: With respect Del I think you’re misidentifying the problem. The issue should not be who to blame, but how to actually reduce the likelihood of incidents happening. If we really want to tackle the problem, we should be concerned with the most efficient way to protect people and I believe this is done at the individual level. The problem with putting the “onus” on the bad guys, is bad guys by their nature don’t care and so the method is useless.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:36 PM

    @Will: “Any man who puts his hands on you deserves a good hard slap in the face along with a loud rebuke” – Have you asked your female friends if they’d feel safe reacting like that?

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    May 9th 2019, 2:43 PM

    @Jane: There are tried and tested ways of avoiding exactly what you have mentioned that can be learned by anyone and everyone.

    And these methods properly employed at the individual level are the most effective way to reduce harrasment and assault.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:45 PM

    @Bob Earner: I’ve seen my wife react like that years ago in a pub. Some guy grabbed her a** and she immediately turned around and whacked him one right on the nose while yelling ‘Perv’. I was very much impressed by that. The guy went bright red, grabbed his coat and ran.

    I know where you’re coming from though. A lot of women would not find it easy to do that. Plus you don’t know for sure how the perv will react.
    All I can say is that you are going to meet a**holes in this life and you need to be able to handle them.
    You cannot child proof the world.
    We can all work towards a utopian society but we must realise that due to human nature, it cannot be achieved.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:00 PM

    @Will: So your wife knew she had backup as you were right there.

    Do you think she’d have done the same if you weren’t there?
    I think you already know the answer to that.

    You talk about needing to “be able to handle” a$$holes though you don’t seem to be aware that women do that their entire lives. Women learn to deescalate situations from a very early age. Ask your wife, ask your female colleagues. They’ll tell you your approach is not the way to go.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:15 PM

    @Bob Earner: You don’t know my wife Bob and she didn’t know me at the time. I believe she would have reacted in that manner regardless of who was there.
    You seem to lump all women into one narrowly defined category and you also presume far too much.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:24 PM

    @Will: Perhaps I do. Why not ask the women in your life? Listen to what they say.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:36 PM

    @Bob Earner: No need, I have daughters and a very outspoken wife. We have discussed these matters at length and I refuse to allow my daughters to become the victims in waiting that you seem to view women as.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:43 PM

    @Will: No use Bob, you’re dealing with a third wave feminist there. “Bob” is more concerned with virtue signalling and feminist ideology than the actual welfare of the people she claims to represent.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:51 PM

    @Will: omg, physically assaulting a male stranger who just sexually assaulted you, while maybe alone. That thought terrified me. When men are being like that I won’t even talk badly to them. Some will snap if you as so much as reject them. I’ve had some horrible experiences. It’s clear you don’t understand the perspective of a woman or how dangerous it can be for us, especially if you’re on the smaller and weaker side of things.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:57 PM

    @Bob Earner: so true. A situation is very different when you’re alone, not in a pub.
    People wouldn’t even notice you slap someone in the middle of a nightclub dance floor, or when walking home in the dark, or in a changing room.

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    May 9th 2019, 9:54 PM

    @Will: me and my friend both got groped by a guy in a night club and we took him to task on it. He pushed my friend and tried to box me in the face. He got thrown out. He waited till we left the night club and attacked us and our friends. He kicked and punched everyone who got in his way including bouncers and anyone who came to our assistance. Miraculously no one was badly hurt and the police came and arrested him.
    That’s what we got for standing up for ourselves.
    Didn’t stop me from standing up again and again but it’s not always safe to stand up for yourself, sometimes it’s better to diffuse the situation and walk away.

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    May 9th 2019, 12:37 PM

    Durty aul one in the pic

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    May 9th 2019, 12:56 PM

    @andyearley: ah changed the picture to suit the agenda. That could be her boyfriend in that picture. Where as the other one was clearly a dirty aul one!!!

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    May 9th 2019, 1:01 PM

    @andyearley: oh I didn’t see the video initially. Still with change the original picture on the story

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    May 9th 2019, 4:08 PM

    @andyearley: calm down Wayne Rooney plenty of “aul wans” to go around

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    May 9th 2019, 6:34 PM

    @Gary Stewart: you seem to be in the know. Even correcting my vernacular! Ya dirt bird!

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    May 9th 2019, 10:23 AM

    Is a sex crime a conviction or a reported incident?

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    May 9th 2019, 10:30 AM

    @Al.Dunne: reported.

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    May 9th 2019, 11:43 AM

    @Peter Cavey: so these stats mean nothing, no due process no definitive outcomes

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    May 9th 2019, 12:24 PM

    @Al.Dunne: is a ‘terror suspect’ a kind of terrorist or a kind of suspect? An assumption of guilt is built into the nomenclature.

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    May 9th 2019, 12:55 PM

    @Al.Dunne: no the biggest threat are those who deny there are problems despite the evidence.

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    May 9th 2019, 1:10 PM

    @Patrick Swan: What a terrible comparison. “Terror suspects” are usually sentenced for conspiracy to commit murder or other offences, so yes, they are convicted. Anyone can make a sexual assault report.

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    May 9th 2019, 1:17 PM

    @Al.Dunne: only the reported ones the vast, vast majority go unreported.

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    May 9th 2019, 1:37 PM

    @Jason Genovani: what? Once convicted of conspiracy to commit murder they’re no longer a suspect.

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    May 9th 2019, 1:41 PM

    @Brendan Cooney: were did I do this ! I asked a question,, can u hear me from that high horse ?

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    May 9th 2019, 2:38 PM

    @Jason Genovani: then they are no longer ‘suspects’

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    May 9th 2019, 3:44 PM

    @Al.Dunne: yes they’re going to be way under the real number. Most people don’t report sexual harassment. When I’ve been harassed at a bar, I just want to get away and forget about it. Don’t even consider reporting it at the time.

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    May 9th 2019, 12:55 PM

    Is Coercion by your partner a sex crime then ? Scenario : one partner not in the mood , the other partner sulks , huffs and puffs and so the other gives in to keep the peace

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    May 9th 2019, 1:18 PM

    @Shelly Enright: sounds feckin grim.

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    May 9th 2019, 1:22 PM

    @Shelly Enright: Is it that hard to ignore somebody who’s sulking? Is sulking a breach of the peace? How about you decide to be the adult in the room and ignore the sulking for the childish yet harmless behaviour it is.
    If it’s a pattern then get rid of the sulker.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:08 PM

    @Shelly Enright: Yes.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:18 PM

    @CrabaRev: Sulking because you aren’t getting any is now a sex crime?

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    May 9th 2019, 2:30 PM

    @Will:
    Coercing anyone into having sex against their will is a sex crime.

    If a woman’s partner has been violent to her before and starts sulking because he isn’t “getting any”, what would be the woman’s thought process in that situation? Would it be a sex crime if she consented so as not to be beaten up?

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    May 9th 2019, 2:34 PM

    @CrabaRev: But we were only talking about sulking, you have introduced the extra dimension of possible violence. Sulking on it’s own is not and cannot be a sex crime.
    Do you get violent every time you sulk?

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    May 9th 2019, 2:48 PM

    @CrabaRev: So its just men that use sex as a weapon? Women are well able to use it too. Would it be considered financial blackmail if a women had sex with a man so he’d buy her expensive jewellery?

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    May 9th 2019, 3:26 PM

    @Windom Earle: solicitation.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:47 PM

    @Shelly Enright: yeah I think it’s bad. Manipulating or nagging your partner into sex because you want it isn’t healthy.
    Depending on the power dynamic it could be very troubling. Or say if the horny partner had a temper and the not in the mood partner didn’t want to upset them and get in trouble.
    Shouldn’t coerce someone into sex for any reason tbh. If they don’t want it they don’t want it.

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    May 9th 2019, 5:24 PM

    @Windom Earle: I never said it was just men. Do you understand the concept of an example?

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    May 9th 2019, 6:14 PM

    @Windom Earle: A poor example, in that particular case the woman and the man would be doing it consensually. It does appear you are a little confused around the meaning of consent.

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    May 9th 2019, 6:21 PM

    @Brendan Heery: doesn’t it !

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    May 9th 2019, 6:22 PM

    @Will: that’s what should be done alright, and if the sulky partner had any respect he/she wouldn’t be sulking in the first place , Curios as to the bounds of the law you see ,

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    May 9th 2019, 6:22 PM

    @Will: hard to believe it could come down to that

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    May 9th 2019, 1:07 PM

    Maybe they’ll do an ad campaign telling us not to eat our own feces too.

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    May 9th 2019, 1:55 PM

    @Jason Genovani: well, there’s not much of a problem in society with people eating their own faeces. There are, however, about 10 reported incidents (not even counting the majority that go unreported) of sexual assault/harassment per day in Ireland. Yes, sexual assault and sexual harassment should not happen, but some people obviously do need this form of education. Unless, of course, you think sexual assault and/or harassment is perfectly fine.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:19 PM

    @Brian Ó Dálaigh: A quite extraordinary take on my comment. I think any reasonable person could understand I was implying that an advertisement isn’t going to make this whole concept of consent “click” for them.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:37 PM

    @Jason Genovani: Well, if you agree with the reasoning behind it but think this won’t work, then say that. However, the way you phrased it made it seem as if you were comparing the frequency and horror of sexual assault with that of eating faeces (one is very common and has actual victims while the other is exceptionally uncommon and is simply disgusting). Try come up with a solution that you think would work as an educational/preemptive tool.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:00 PM

    @Brian Ó Dálaigh: 14 people clearly understood what I implied. I’m not changing the way I speak to appease you. You misunderstood me, that’s fine, just move on.

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    May 9th 2019, 3:39 PM

    @Jason Genovani: And 22 people agreed with my interpretation, not that these things should be a popularity contest. The fact is you are getting upset because of your own failure to properly communicate what you were thinking. Your failure is not my responsibility. If you don’t want people to misunderstand your point, perhaps you should be clearer in its elaboration, especially on a topic such as this article.

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    May 9th 2019, 11:07 AM

    @VMKilshaw: It was probably put in there so that men won’t feel demonised.

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    May 9th 2019, 11:51 AM

    @Charles McGuire: I’m all for men not feeling demonised, but why should their feelings take precedence over the women who are actually being murdered, raped and maimed. E.g. would a murderer’s feelings take precedence over the murdered or their families? God forbid we should hurt the feelings of the perpetrators.

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    May 9th 2019, 12:41 PM

    @VMKilshaw: you have just equated all men to murderers and sexual abusers Really?

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    May 9th 2019, 12:48 PM

    @VMKilshaw: You do realise that man can and are victims too in sexual harassment?

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    May 9th 2019, 12:54 PM

    @Jim Buckley Barrett: too busy hating

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    May 9th 2019, 1:06 PM

    @andyearley: How could you possibly come to that conclusion from what I said?

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    May 9th 2019, 1:07 PM

    @Jim Buckley Barrett: I have no doubt they are. But the statistics would suggest that it happens mainly to women, hence my original post.

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    May 9th 2019, 6:36 PM

    @VMKilshaw: you need to reread your post then. 10 times more people agree with me than agree with you.

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    May 9th 2019, 6:41 PM

    @VMKilshaw: I’ll give it a go though,
    You are all for men not feeling demonised, then go onto say why should men’s feelings outweigh a victims feelings when women are being murdered and so forth, so therefore setting up the idea. Then, without out making any distinction, go onto talk about murderers feelings etc. Equating all men to murderers.
    How can you say that doesn’t come across?

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    May 10th 2019, 10:08 AM

    @andyearley: Well obviously thejournal.ie agreed with me because they changed the picture. Your comments are puerile and childish, maybe the demographic of the site is puerile and childish too, hence your ‘many’ likes.

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    May 9th 2019, 4:49 PM

    Oh great, more ads to ignore/fast forward through

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    May 9th 2019, 11:13 AM

    Start with the gardai . It’s so obvious that command the power of bullies…

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    May 9th 2019, 7:19 PM

    @Harry Price: The Gardai won’t do anything, their attitude is to grow a pair and that is the problem.

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    May 9th 2019, 1:34 PM

    An bhfuil toghchán ar an mbealach?

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    May 9th 2019, 10:33 PM

    Here in Ireland we have a mentality that people should ignore these things as they go under harmless fun but who says its harmless fun but those who do them?Those who do them will always find an excuse to excuse what they have done as well as an excuse to continuing doing it, it is Ireland after all?

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    May 10th 2019, 9:22 AM

    Someone is making a lot of money out of this virtue signaling – who is paying for it? And where is this “research” exposing sexual harrassment in Ireland of “endemic” proportions? Links to multiple articles please!

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    May 9th 2019, 7:18 PM

    I worked in a place where my supervisor and manager called a meeting in the area where I worked and both in front of everyone did the following. The manager thought it was funny to cup my balls and my supervisor told me in front of all of then with a floor brush in his hands and used his thumb to measure about 6 inches on the brush handle that he was going to stick up my hole. They all thought it was funny.
    It was a place full of narcissistic sociopaths, it started because fellow employees thought I was doing too much work and they use to pick on other as well who they thought did too much work, they just made a skit of them. I was picked on because I wouldn’t join in on the bullying of another worker. It was a place where bullying was a past time, even one manager called the gardai on my lift home one evening making out he didn’t know who he was although he wasn’t on their property and was doing the same thing for 6 months there. Sometimes you come across places that are so evil that everyone in it is a pal of another, even those in HR. As HR put it, that the CCTV camera on those harassing me was only there to protect the goods and couldn’t be used to have a record of the incidents. There was also a woman there who never shut up about me having sex with children and animals, as she was doing it she thought it was funny. It was just pure hatred towards me, to poison the work atmosphere around me there but the more they push then the more I stood my ground as all they wanted in that place was people they could control and treat like pets who were eager for attention from them and they acted like dogs who were wanting to be rubbed in turn.
    I never saw such craziness and emotional immaturity in my life, it started with attacking my family until they found out they weren’t Protestants or from England but were from that town and after 6 months then they started with saying I was gay because I was seen in a gay club in Greece on holidays but I never have gone to Greece or Crete in my life or even to Cyprus either. It was a nasty cruel place and when the gay harassment started then it later turned into paedophilia labelling and then into death threats and IRA threats because I wouldn’t leave the place. A bloke use to come the opposite end of the building to as the vile mouth woman what I was doing as he use to sexually grab and rub his hand all over her bum and front in front of me. Reporting it to HR meant nothing and they did nothing but talked about what I said in HR to those harassing me and to laugh about it on the floor and in front of the canteen. Then the ones making death threats to me in conversations to me passed it off as saying I was listening to private conversations and made out what they did to me was not them but me doing those things to them. I got suspended because I got evidence of the harassment and I had witnesses to it but I wasn’t going to say who they were to HR because the whole place was a click who were more at home being sociopaths and trying to fit in with other sociopaths. My fault was not going to the Gardai with a solicitor at the time but its hard to think straight when you get bombarded with people who poison the work atmosphere on you because I wouldn’t kiss ass. But that is getting very close to 20 years ago now and eventually that placed closed because the staff was too lazy to work and that is what closed it. Sexual harassment is a tool of bullying as well, when your a victim its hard to know what to do but accept it and carry on because the experiences prevent you from seeing what you can do about it as well as the shame of it. Also when its that poisonous reporting it can also be opening your witnesses to the same bullying and then there is those who control the crowd but if you do nothing about it then it just keeps happening and keeps getting worse and out of hand then. The more they get away with then the more they try to get away with, which I found out myself…

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    May 9th 2019, 8:10 PM

    @TamuMassif2019: I don’t have time to read War and Peace.

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    May 9th 2019, 10:30 PM

    @Mike Conway: And yet you replied to something you didn’t read?

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    May 10th 2019, 9:31 AM

    @TamuMassif2019: An alternative perspective – I have been a working professional for 20+ years and never once saw, or even heard of, anything approaching what you endured. Neither have any of my friends or family working in professional settings.

    Harrassment of this nature is not endemic, acceptable, ignored, institutionalised or frequent. The topic does not deserve an expensive ad campaign.

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    May 11th 2019, 2:43 AM

    @David Bailey: The problem with harassment is the harassers will keep on doing what they are allowed to get away with. I allowed them to get away with it because I didn’t seek help at the time from the Gardai which I should have done, I foolishly went to HR. Also if I left then I wouldn’t have had any pay or any income for 9 weeks I believe. The problem with harassment is it is done slowly and it is like putting a frog into water in a pan, it is done slowly and gradually. I had never experienced anything like it before or after, you tell people what happens and they tell you what you should have done according to them who never have experienced anything like it or they disbelieve you because its that so psychoville. Sometimes I think it was so strange and weird to poison the atmosphere around me as they thought it was up to them who should be working there instead of the management. I just never knew any place so full of sneering crazy bullies that belong to such a click as they did. The amount of bitter nasty sneering amongst themselves was incredible and the amount of books they too in on the nightshift about the IRA was crazy, it would make you think that they all wanted to be IRA wantabes except one person who use to take in a pillow each shift to put on her desk. I was just in that place a week when they had to call an ambulance for one man because he thought he was having a heart attack because the bullies there never left him alone and what he had was a panic attack. A head of HR left that place and that place was so rotten with nasty gossipers they had it that he was sacked because he was caught with child porn on his computer. All they cared about was their make up, what they wore and gossip as well as those who just joined to kiss their butts and to know their place.

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    May 11th 2019, 2:44 AM

    @David Bailey: It was that bad for me that two women there use to shout out after 8pm what they saw I did with my face or heard me say as I at the time was facing the opposite wall sitting down behind 4 walls of metal about 5 foot high. Then go over to me and just stare angerly at me as they went out to tell others on the main floor what I was suppose to have said or done. So how could they see what was on my face behind walls of metal and with the back of my head facing them if they had X Ray eyes. That is the example of their bitterness and insanity. One insane person feed of another and what started as fun for them turned into insanity when I didn’t react to them. The idea they had about themselves working there was that they were special and somebodies and it was full of weirdos. I use to have conversations with people there about the insane things going on and they knew that many there weren’t normal. It was a place full of game play, where one person tries to play one person off another by saying one thing to them about one person and then go to that person and say you said something else and the penny didn’t drop until you end up talking to the other person. It was a hole of a place, good money but so full of abnormal insane behaviour.
    Near the end of my time there I got a barrister and a solicitor which they sent in 20 questions to HR there, HR could only bother to reply to 6 or 7 of then which weren’t answers at all, then with another 6 they said they did answer them when they never did and left the rest blank. My solicitor after getting the reply to those questions started to laugh in amazement and said to my barrister “What planet is (…) from” as the Barrister couldn’t believe the replies HR gave especially the lack of replies.
    The problem that caused it to spead and get worse was me not nipping it in the bud by getting the gardai, I was threatened in that place with the IRA, death and kidnapping threats and with screwdrivers and paper cutting scapels which one person in particular bleed me with. Another man one day went up to me with only us two in that area and stood in front of me flicking in and out a stanley knife at me right under the CCTV which the HR wouldn’t use to deal with the harassment. What I should have done was go to the public phone and rang the gardai there and then but I was weighed down with so much bullying that was constant and nasty that it stopped me from doing anything including leaving. That toxic atmosphere just effected my thinking because it became warped with the stress they were hammering me with and that was effecting themselves with weirder and weirder thinking and behaviour from them. Another example was it depended who was about, if it was their pals then the bullying was insane but if someone new came in then everything would change and the same person going crazy with anger at me would change and then be so nice to me, even offering me sweets like if I was his pal. The change was that sudden and it would flip like a switch. I know from experience that people who harass in any form will always try to control what their victim thinks, feels and therefore does and it seems they think fear can get them control over their victim as well.

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    May 11th 2019, 2:48 AM

    They always try to control the narrative and if they can’t control what the victim thinks or believes of themselves then they try to control what people think of their victim but here we let these sociopaths away with it because we tell people it was only banter or the person is too sensitive. Yet we say these thing to victims like to shut up and we don’t want to listen to you as your complaining like a child but we accept the lies of emotionally stunted bullies who it seems is ok for any type of slander to be used to cover their rears or to allow them to continue bullying their victims by gossip and by putting labels on them.

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    May 11th 2019, 2:58 AM

    A lot is evil is excused with labels, passing the buck and by getting away with it in the past as well, these people don’t suddenly change into monsters, they were always monsters or found others who allowed these monsters to grow and to come out of them with confidence and persuasion?
    So my experience is due to not nipping it in the bud, trying to protect others from it and a lack of knowledge at the time from innocence and not knowing that people could be so vile. Pressure can effect how you think, what you accept and how you feel, peer pressure is a powerful weapon in any groups hands.

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    May 11th 2019, 3:08 AM

    @David Bailey: What made it worse for me was reporting them to HR and my last year there was absolutely full of certain group threats by people who had nothing to do with the terrorist groups but needed to try to scare me and the last year I was there it never ending republican bull. It is just crazy the effect how bullies can make others feel, think and behave because they get off on that. So how do they spread it but by blaming their victims, by passing the buck and by sticking labels on them. People can get as insane and as abnormal as they like when its in their nature when they can make out their victim is far worse than any action they could ever do as seen with rap…ists who say their victims were looking for it. What I found fed their labelling of me was what they thought that I would hate being labelled as with their slanderous gossip.

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    May 10th 2019, 12:19 AM

    Good to see that our justice minister is so woke. Time to sit back and watch those crime stats plummet.

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    May 9th 2019, 1:38 PM

    I look Never forget happen someone sexual harassment woman in my workplace some years ago & sack & record put file put e-mail for any company can access look person CV can’t get Job & mine friend manager say

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    May 9th 2019, 1:40 PM

    @Brian Flavin: You alright there

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    May 9th 2019, 2:01 PM

    @Brian Flavin: said with agree I everything you.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:33 PM

    @Brian Flavin: English please.

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    May 9th 2019, 2:51 PM

    @Brian Flavin: is there a GDPR issue there?

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    May 9th 2019, 3:52 PM

    @Brian Flavin: your bot is broken

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    May 9th 2019, 5:32 PM

    @Rei: you not properly read & glasses

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    May 10th 2019, 12:21 AM

    @Brian Flavin: eh.. what?

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    May 11th 2019, 6:54 AM

    Why are all the male instigators in the ad only white? We live in a multicultural society. Would it be the same if it was an ad showing males in a positive light?

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    May 9th 2019, 8:42 PM

    I’m gay

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    May 10th 2019, 8:56 AM

    @Eamon: hows it going gay,I’m Jimmy

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