Discrimination against males in Separation proper provision

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And that is entirely the issue: there is no "hard evidence" because, despite demands for many decades for the Department of Justice to create a research unit which will analyse cases for gender discrimination, financial abuse, waiting time abuse, and all the other abuses which the family law legal process greatly intensifies (most obviously via the complete absense of enforced time deadlines which result in many cases going on for years and thus to the second problem, the enormous financial cost), successive Irish government refuse to open up the family law court system to serious analysis. "Every case is different" is the mantra, when the man on the street knows gender discrimination is rife in the family law courts.

As Helen McEntee refuses to establish such research, there are scant and piecemeal statistics about what is happening - which, of course, means that everytime somebody condemns what's happening, the government can look for statistics that it knows don't exist because it won't fund family law research in the first place! Priceless. If it funds such research, a whole raft of problems requiring money and politicial will will have to be acknowledged. Far better to just mouth lipservice to "the best interests of the child" rather than put money into creating a transparent, speedy, family courts' system that is actually in the best interests of the child by ending all the toxic homes that exist because of court delays.

All that said, the anecdotal evidence is consistently and overwhelmingly that men are destroyed in the family law courts, and that women are treated like a protected species. The fact that by talking about what happened you in court you can be prosecuted for breaching the notorious "In-camera rule" highlights the kangaroo-court nature of family law proceedings in the Republic of Ireland in 2023. You couldn't invent a more dystopian system than what passes as family law process in Ireland!

No doubt about men suffering far more, despite the token exceptions which are well publicised to give the impression of gender equality (Nevertheless, note the gender prejudice in "The husband was “very hands-on at home” and did a lot of the cooking and domestic chores." but no such sexist comment about the mother from Judge John Jordan, despite her being a multimillionaire from her work outside the home: https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2022/11/02/woman-must-pay-former-husband-16-million-as-part-of-divorce-settlement-judge-rules/).

The so-called "equality agenda" does not exist in the family law courts, much to the happiness of the State-funded women's rights' industry. The Irish State has form here in covering up scandals, and family law courts rife with their misandrist prejudices are just the current institutional scapegoat in the same place as the industrial schools, Magdalene laundries and all the rest. See no evil, hear no evil - which is precisely where Helen McEntee's refusal to fund research into the family law legal process rests: like the child labour, rapes, beatings, etc of the above State-funded institutions, Irish government ministers don't know anything so can't be held to account for the State-funded family law system! Like those institutions, what's happening against fathers in family law courts cannot continue indefinitely. The IHREC is the body which advises Irish citizens on taking cases against the Irish State to the European Court of Human Rights: https://www.ihrec.ie/our-work/legal-activity/

Because of the in-camera rule, it is likely that Irish law will attempt to muzzle any Irish father who wants to highlight the injustice in their case. What a travesty of inhumanity against fathers that passes as the Irish family law system. As always, if you have enough money a father could win a ECHR case against the Irish State on a whole range of gender equality and child rights' issues.