“I was 17 when I entered UCD, and it failed me. How can a university fail a 17-year-old?
“I’m still figuring out the whole world, yet to live life, yet to see so many things, but I have been abandoned instead, during the worst time of my life.
expectationlost on
Was her life not shattered by rape?
caisdara on
Why is all of the focus on UCD and not the person who raped this woman and/or the person who distributed photographs of her?
UCD isn’t the cause of those actions.
The High Court appears to have agreed that UCD behaved appropriately.
Reasonable_Tip3807 on
I have enormous sympathy for this person and what she has gone through, particularly in respect of the rape and her subsequent re-traumatisation through IBSA. The perpetrator(s) of these offences really need to be brought to court and prosecuted and every endeavour ought to be made by UCD and the Gardaà to identify the publishers of those emails and messages. They’re incredibily sinister, and the fact that they may emanate from someone who will be qualifiying as a doctor is particuarly worrying.
I would also say that it is most definitely a failing of the University/School of Medicine if they didn’t offer this person support after those images were leaked, particularly in circumstances where University-affiliated platforms and groups were used to publish/distribute.
I think it’s worth people reading the High Court judgment on the subject of her examinations. It’s lengthy, but very thorough and I think it contrasts quite significantly with the reportage on this matter, which I have found to be particularly click-baity and sensationalised. The same could be said for Ruth Coppinger’s involvement, unfortunately.
I have huge sympathy for the person who is the victim of this and has clearly been revictimised multiple times over. Just know that the vast majority of society stands behind you and in solidarity with you, not those bullying you. We are appalled by them.
The university and the Gardaà need to deal with the people who distributed the images, including anyone who forwarded them. It sounds like a very aggressive and very orchestrated campaign by whoever sent them in the first place – they went to considerable lengths to create anonymous accounts and so on.
What always infuriates me about these kinds of horrible incidents is the way this stuff gets forwarded through IM platforms like WhatsApp and others. There has to be responsibility for what someone consciously chooses to distribute by forwarding a message to a group or a distribution list in an email system – they are making decisions and should understand these have consequences. It’s no different from photocopying something and distributing it by physical post as poison pen letters, it’s just instantaneous and automated, but the legal consequences should be the same.
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Maeve told the Irish Examiner.
“I was 17 when I entered UCD, and it failed me. How can a university fail a 17-year-old?
“I’m still figuring out the whole world, yet to live life, yet to see so many things, but I have been abandoned instead, during the worst time of my life.
Was her life not shattered by rape?
Why is all of the focus on UCD and not the person who raped this woman and/or the person who distributed photographs of her?
UCD isn’t the cause of those actions.
The High Court appears to have agreed that UCD behaved appropriately.
I have enormous sympathy for this person and what she has gone through, particularly in respect of the rape and her subsequent re-traumatisation through IBSA. The perpetrator(s) of these offences really need to be brought to court and prosecuted and every endeavour ought to be made by UCD and the Gardaà to identify the publishers of those emails and messages. They’re incredibily sinister, and the fact that they may emanate from someone who will be qualifiying as a doctor is particuarly worrying.
I would also say that it is most definitely a failing of the University/School of Medicine if they didn’t offer this person support after those images were leaked, particularly in circumstances where University-affiliated platforms and groups were used to publish/distribute.
I think it’s worth people reading the High Court judgment on the subject of her examinations. It’s lengthy, but very thorough and I think it contrasts quite significantly with the reportage on this matter, which I have found to be particularly click-baity and sensationalised. The same could be said for Ruth Coppinger’s involvement, unfortunately.
Read below: [https://ww2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/6b0c6f8f-e113-481e-be2d-c756cad55729/2026_IEHC_57.pdf/pdf#view=fitH](https://ww2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/6b0c6f8f-e113-481e-be2d-c756cad55729/2026_IEHC_57.pdf/pdf#view=fitH)
I have huge sympathy for the person who is the victim of this and has clearly been revictimised multiple times over. Just know that the vast majority of society stands behind you and in solidarity with you, not those bullying you. We are appalled by them.
The university and the Gardaà need to deal with the people who distributed the images, including anyone who forwarded them. It sounds like a very aggressive and very orchestrated campaign by whoever sent them in the first place – they went to considerable lengths to create anonymous accounts and so on.
What always infuriates me about these kinds of horrible incidents is the way this stuff gets forwarded through IM platforms like WhatsApp and others. There has to be responsibility for what someone consciously chooses to distribute by forwarding a message to a group or a distribution list in an email system – they are making decisions and should understand these have consequences. It’s no different from photocopying something and distributing it by physical post as poison pen letters, it’s just instantaneous and automated, but the legal consequences should be the same.