This is a photo of Christobel Laura Boyce (32), mother of 2 young children, and former nanny to Lord Lucan.

Christobel killed by her husband in London on January 13th, 1985.

You'll never guess how long he spent in prison, after reading what he did.

CW: Extremely distressing. Christobel wanted a divorce and him to move out, before her death.

Killed her on January 13th and then proceeded to dismember her body.

Cut her body up and cooked it, arranged it on a plate like Sunday Dinner, then went around London putting pieces into different bins.

In January, when I published my femicide map, a few of my Welsh followers asked could I do it for Wales.

I quickly realised it would be exceptionally difficult but I've worked on it every day since.

This is for 500 women and girls killed in Wales. /1

google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi… It was a lot easier from a research perspective to do the map for the island of Ireland.

Search terms like "Gardaí", "RUC" and "Central Criminal Court" narrow a search down.

For Wales there's multiple police forces and murder trials were being held left, right n' center.

This has to be one of the most ignorant, insidious and offensive conspiracy theories I've ever seen on Irish Twitter.

Absolute bully here alleging Ivana Bacik's grandfather was a Nazi collaborator and (separately) defaming Ivana herself.

A thread on her grandfather. /1 Karla Bačíka (Charles Bacik) was born on June 25th, 1910 in Nová Říša near Telč in southern Czechoslovakia.

In 1933 he married Edith Starch and they 2 girls, Milada, Edith, and 2 boys, Karel and Jindřich.

Although his degree was in science, he got into the glassworks business.

It's sad that CervicalCheck keeps getting dragged through the mud and very lame the far-right pretend to care about screening, when it suits.

O'Keeffe doesn't know the basic timeline of events and I see tweets like his one all the time.

I'll go through that timeline again. /1 Knowing the timeline is useful because it still happens and will keep happening.

For example if Mary Lou (Taoiseach, SF) and Holly (Tánaiste, SD) this will still occur ⬇️

30 women diagnosed with cervical cancer every year in Ireland, despite their most recent test negative.

Seems to be "bash asylum seeker" weekend on here, which I suppose describes every weekend 😔

Very sad to see asylum seekers being confronted by angry racists non-stop.

This is a thread on asylum myths in Ireland, to try counter some of the hateful ignorance being spread. Myth #1: "It's all single males"

In the last 10 years (2014-2023) there were 13,145 asylum seekers granted a positive decision to remain in Ireland.

Male: 7,725 (58.8%)
Female: 5,420 (41.2%)

It's not 50-50 as you might intuitively expect but it's also not far off that.

The term "durable relationship" has been part of EU law for 20 years but was proposed in 1999.

I thought it might be interesting to trace the evolution of language from 1949 - 1999, to see how they eventually reached that term.

By interesting I mean boring, probably 😂 /1 June 8th, 1949 - Migration for Employment Recommendation (Revised), 1949 (No. 86)

It was agreed at General Conference of the UN's International Labour Organisation.

The language in that document to describe a family member of a migrant was objectively sexist and anachronistic.

The "protest" outside Celbridge Manor Hotel last night is a textbook example of how the far-right operates.

It's extremely disconcerting and someone is going to get killed, sooner or later, by racist vigilantes masquerading as 'concerned locals'.

Anatomy of an outrage. /1 A woman, Jessica Browne, took to Facebook to allege a 7-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by "3 Romanian men."

Jessica is an Irish Freedom Party supporter and admin of far-right accounts.

Routinely spreads rumours without any evidence and later retracts them.

Just FYI.

I've written threads on them before but today is a good day to write another.

A story of grieving parents from New Zealand who showed dignity, grace, resilience and courage to save lives.

Thinking of Kevin & Susan Campbell today on the 35th anniversary of their son's death. /1 United Airlines Flight 811 was from Los Angeles, USA to Sydney, Australia on February 24th, 1989.

It had planned intermediate stops in Honolulu and Auckland, NZ.

Plane was a Boeing 747-122 and had 337 passengers and 18 crew on board, including 24-year-old Lee Campbell.

Astonishing for a newspaper to publish defamatory lies so nonchalantly.

It's like people are actively going out of their way to get sued this week, incredible 🤷‍♂️

If it saves anyone getting sued, I'll give it a try to explain the cervical audit again.

clareecho.ie/hses-plans-to-… Underlined is a complete lie.

Chief Medical Officer in Ireland is a civil servant who advises the government.

CMO's don't work in (or for) the HSE.

Nobody in the HSE withheld smear test results; anyone saying they did, doesn't understand the design and purpose of the audit.

This is a blatant lie.

Sadly these lies get far more traction on Twitter than the truth ever does 🤷‍♂️

The problem with these lies is they undermine participation in cancer screening and risk leading to even more cancer.

Anyone spreading these lies should stop doing that. No woman in the audit was wrongly diagnosed.

Screening is not a diagnostic test looking for cancer in a patient with symptoms.

It's a test looking for future risk of cancer in a woman with no symptoms.

Cancer is only diagnosed on biopsy, screening can't diagnose it.

I noticed the "Ireland is Full" crowd sharing this image claiming, quote:

"There has been a 1200% increase in sexual offences in Clare between 2019 and 2022"

Needless to say this is complete nonsense and should be readily ignored as such. /1 CW: Sexual assault

I know that's probably obvious from the first tweet but I'll have to lay out real figures in order to counter bogus ones.

Here's a hug for anyone who would prefer not to read beyond this point.

RED C poll showed 66% think Ireland has taken in too many refugees.

Already people are claiming that poll showed Ireland has taken in too many "asylum seekers" 🤦‍♂️

'Asylum seeker' is not the same as 'refugee.'

I prepared a thread to show how many of both Ireland takes in. /1 There were 7,560,320 applications for asylum in the EU between January 1st, 2013 and December 31st, 2022.

Almost half (49.3%) of those applications were made in just 2 countries:

Germany (2,679,715) and France (1,049,415).

ec.europa.eu/eurostat/datab…

According to a protester, quote:

"Ballymun and surrounding areas no longer safe for women due to unvetted strangers, all single males"

Actually most males who caused women to lose their lives in those areas, as in all areas of Dublin, were neither single nor strangers. /1 I'm unaware of any woman murdered by a stranger in that part of Dublin in the last 25 years.

Antoinette Corbally (47) death in 2017 may count under that category, if anyone ever gets charged for that "botched gangland hit" i.e. murder.

Otherwise 100% killed by people they knew.

Aside from the obvious xenophobia and racism; things I notice among the Irish far-right is warped nationalism and delusions of superiority.

Take asylum applications.

They think Ireland is where asylum seekers wanted to apply in Western Europe but opposite was true. /1 First time asylum applications from January 1st, 2014 to September 30th, 2023 (117 months).

Germany: 2,543,550
France: 990,770
Spain: 624,225
Austria: 398,550
Netherlands: 242,300
Belgium: 207,805
Denmark: 60,225
Ireland: 44,905
Luxembourg: 19,140

ec.europa.eu/eurostat/datab…

An end product of my research on femicide.

I tried to document all violent deaths of women and girls, then mapped the location of their deaths and the sentences given to their killers.

This thread is for 574 women and girls killed in the 1922 - 2022 century in Ireland. A few words about the map.

I didn't have access to the archives I'd need to attempt this project for the whole island, so I couldn't do Northern Ireland.

I'm hoping to eventually do that,

For now I did the best I could with the resources I had available to me.

This is a textbook example of lazy journalism being seized on by the Irish far-right to make stupid, anti-immigrant arguments.

"2,000 knives seized by Gardaí in 2023. A huge increase on previous years."

All of that is wildly misleading, for the following reasons. /1 You may notice something happened, 2016-18, knife seizures *seemingly* skyrocketed but they really didn't.

Knives seized, Ireland:

2013: 1,341
2014: 1,340
2015: 1,346
2016: 1,199
2017: 1,613
2018: 1,931
2019: 2,142
2020: 2,243
2021: 1,832
2022: 2,146
2023: 2,027 (49 weeks)

Elizabeth Clarke (23) got married to James Kerley (38) in Co. Louth on January 29th, 1929.

I looked for recent articles remembering her and couldn't find any, so figured I'll write something myself.

The story is heartbreaking and shameful.

The thread is for Elizabeth. /1 The wedding was supposed to be at 9am on Tuesday, January 29th, 1929.

Anne Elizabeth, who went by Elizabeth, was in her wedding dress at the church, with all her family and friends, but no sign of the groom.

Everyone left the church, Elizabeth in tears took off her dress.

There's been many sad disappearances of women in Ireland.

One has been forgotten.

A devoted mother, who gardaí said "disappeared off the face of the Earth", she was later subjected to shameful character attacks by the Irish Independent.

The disappearance of Evelyn Bohan. /1 I've been researching this a long time and initially felt Christmas not the right time to post.

Then I thought of Fiona Pender, Annie McCarrick, JoJo Dollard, Fiona Sinnott, Deirdre Jacob and their families with an empty chair at Christmas.

Maybe today is as good a day as any.

I thought it might be nice timing to share my all-time favourite Christmas story.

This is a Christmas story very loosely in the same fashion 'Die Hard' is a 'Christmas film', as in it took place near Christmas time 😂

It's the story of the Gottröra Miracle.

Nobody died ⬇️ Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 from Stockholm to Warsaw, departed at 8:47am on December 27th, 1991.

The plane was an almost brand new MD-81, basically in turn a 2nd generation DC-9 model.

McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in August, 1997 in a $13 billion deal.

Sixteen teenage girls, aged between 12 - 19, were brutally killed between 1980 and 1995 in Ireland.

Most of their names, faces and stories have been forgotten in the passage of time.

I went through archives to tell a few of their stories, of how they died and how they lived. /1 CW: This thread will discuss sexual assault and murder, best to stop reading here if those topics are too upsetting.

I'm writing this thread because a lot of these girls haven't been mentioned in decades.

It's like they never even mattered to begin with and it makes me sad.

I researched femicide in Ireland from 1980 - 1995 and posted a recent thread on it.

That thread also discussed the perpetrators prison sentences and thus was very long to read.

This shorter thread is the list of 120 women and girls murdered or killed in that period. /1 1980

1. Dec 22nd - Jan 18th: Phyllis Murphy (23)
2. March 1st: Sarah "Sally" Coffey (64)
3. June 3rd: Mary Kitt (45)
4. June 10th-20th: Margaret Ayres (22)
5. Sep 6th: Deborah Robinson (19)
6. Oct 1st: Elizabeth Westbury (40)
7. Nov 7th: Theresa Gallagher (23)

RIP 🙏