Pro-choice activists at London’s St Patrick'’s Day parade, March 2017 | Dmitry Dzhus/Flickr. CC-BY-2.0 Some rights reserved
Nice Irish girls don’t have sex. This is what I gathered growing up as a young woman in Ireland, at school in my local convent in Longford and at university in Dublin. If you had sex, you’d better be in a long-term relationship. Even then, you’d struggle to go on the pill because that would involve admitting to a stranger you were having sex outside marriage.
