"I listened to the man who barricaded himself into the spare room every night. I heard from the man who had to run out of the house with the kids. I saw photographs of a man who was stabbed by his girlfriend. I was told about the man who was beaten by his wife with a hoover. Men telling my story. The story of sleepless nights, endless fights, put downs, shut-ups lock-in and lock-outs. For two hours I listened and I talked."

Anonymous man after a battered men support group meeting in Ireland