The #MeToo movement led to thousands of women breaking their silence about their experience of sexual harassment in the workplace. These were women from all walks of life and at all stages of their careers. Yet, we were still taken by surprise last week when Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, who is a well-known broadcaster and a lecturer in University College Dublin (UCD), spoke publically about being repeatedly harassed by a professor at UCD over a two-year period.  Is our surprise because the issue of sexual harassment is no longer front and centre in the media? Or is it because she…

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