Ireland’s First Coercive Control Conviction

'IRELAND'S FIRST COERCIVE CONTROL CONVICTION'

In November 2020, Daniel Kane became the first person convicted of coercive control by jury trial in Ireland's Circuit Court — a landmark moment in the country's landmark Domestic Violence Act 2018, which had introduced coercive control as a criminal offence just 2 years earlier.

This episode explores what that conviction means for survivors of coercive control in Ireland and beyond — and what it reveals about the extreme, high-level harm that coercive control inflicts on its victims.

Manya Wakefield cites two of Ireland's leading voices on domestic abuse Sarah Benson, CEO of Women's Aid Ireland, and Catríona Gleeson, CEO of Safe Ireland.

The episode also draws on the work of Dr. Evan Stark — forensic social worker, author of Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life — on why coercive control must be understood as a gendered crime.

Note: This episode was recorded shortly after Ireland's landmark conviction. The coercive control legislative landscape has continued to evolve — for current jurisdiction-specific information, visit the Global Coercive Control Legislation Index, the first systematic index of its kind on the web.

RESOURCES AND LINKS

— Global Coercive Control Legislation Index

— Women's Aid Ireland

— Safe Ireland

— Stark, E. (2007). Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life. Oxford University Press.

— Ireland's Domestic Violence Act 2018

— For a full transcript and source material narcissisticabuserehab.com

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ABOUT MANYA WAKEFIELD

⁠Manya Wakefield⁠, is a narcissistic abuse recovery coach, coercive trauma specialist, and the founder of ⁠Narcissistic Abuse Rehab⁠ — a global social impact platform she launched in 2019 to support survivors of narcissistic abuse, coercive control, and domestic abuse.

Manya is the developer of the ⁠Coercive Trauma Recovery Method™⁠ — a structured recovery framework addressing the neurological, perceptual, and identity-level dimensions of coercive trauma — and ⁠TENEL™ (Traumatic Exposure to Narcissism in Early Life)⁠, a specialist framework for Adult Children of Narcissists. Both frameworks have been reviewed by ⁠Dr. Michael Kinsey, PhD,⁠ clinical psychologist, New School for Social Research.

She is the author of Are You In An Emotionally Abusive Relationship (2019), a resource used in domestic violence recovery groups worldwide, and the host of the Narcissistic Abuse Rehab Podcast — available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.

Her original ⁠research contributions⁠ include the ⁠Global Coercive Control Legislation Index (2020) ⁠and the ⁠Global Femicide Legislation Index (2026)⁠ — the first systematic indexes of their kind on the web, cited in peer-reviewed publications including the ⁠Southern Illinois University Law Journal⁠, ⁠Palgrave Macmillan⁠, and the ⁠University of Agder⁠, and used by advocates, legal professionals, and policymakers internationally.

Manya's expertise has been featured in ⁠Newsweek⁠, ⁠Elle⁠, ⁠Cosmopolitan⁠, ⁠Parade⁠, and ⁠HuffPost⁠. She specializes in working with survivors whose presentations have been most resistant to standard approaches — and has documented consistent outcomes across many years of direct practice.

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