Who is tom meagher

His reporting at The Marshall Project has been honored with a Data Journalism Award and the international Malofiej's first human rights special award. A veteran reporter and editor, he previously led an interactive team for the Digital First Media newspaper chain and was the data editor at the Newark Star-Ledger.

He got his start in journalism covering night cops for a small daily paper in Kansas. Email tmeagher themarshallproject.

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When that group hits a critical mass, the majority of men will be more likely to want to change. According to an EU wide study conducted in , one person in five knows of someone who commits domestic violence in their circle of friends and family Special Eurobarometer , Domestic Violence Against Women Report, September One of the most dangerous things about the media saturation of this crime was that Bayley is in fact the archetypal monster. Bayley feeds into a commonly held social myth that most men who commit rape are like him, violent strangers who stalk their victims and strike at the opportune moment.

It gives a disproportionate focus to the rarest of rapes, ignoring the catalogue of non-consensual sex happening on a daily basis everywhere on the planet. We see instances of this occur in bars when men become furious and verbally abusive to, or about, women who decline their attention. We see it on the street as groups of men shout comments, grab, grope and intimidate women with friends either ignoring or getting involved in the activity. We see it in male peer groups where rape-jokes and disrespectful attitudes towards women go uncontested.

The monster myth creates the illusion that this is simply banter, and sexist horseplay. We can either examine this by setting our standards against the monster-rapist, or by accepting that this behaviour intrinsically contributes to a culture in which rape and violence are allowed to exist.

The only thing more disturbing than that paradigm is the fact that most rapists are normal guys, guys we might work beside or socialise with, our neighbours or even members of our family. Her line of work is dangerous, but mainly because there are men who want to hurt women.

If a husband batters his wife, we often unthinkingly put it down to socio-economic factors or alcohol and drugs rather than how men and boys are taught and socialised to be men and view women.

As I attempted to console them, I mentally comforted myself by reducing it to some, as yet undetected mental illnesses in these men. Thomas Francis Meagher , Irish nationalist, was born at Waterford, Ireland, the son of a prosperous merchant, mayor of the city and its member in the British parliament.

Returning to Dublin in , he became a law student, joined the Repeal Association, and won an early reputation for silver-tongued oratory in the association's debates at Conciliation Hall. By he had attached himself to the militant Young Ireland wing of the association and in the critical disputes of joined John Mitchel and William O'Brien in breaking with the older 'moral force' leaders.

In the spring of Meagher, as a rising young leader of the Young Ireland movement, accompanied O'Brien to Paris to present a congratulatory address to the newly formed French Republic; he was appointed a member of the committee of five who directed the abortive Irish insurrection that followed. After its defeat Meagher was brought to trial at Clonmel with O'Brien and his principal associates, and in October was sentenced first to death and later to transportation for life for his part in the affairs.