Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin has said she regrets not making a victim impact statement against her harasser, but added: "I couldn’t be in a room with him, I felt unsafe."
“So when the court case was going through I was offered the opportunity to make a victim impact statement and I actually regret not doing it.“I didn’t want to have to relive everything again, or to go to court and potentially see him.” The assistant professor reported the situation to gardaí and Braun, 58, who is no longer working at the university UCD, was issued with a court order in late 2019 barring him from contacting her for five years.
And while she is happy policies are now being reviewed, she added: “I certainly would have liked more encouragement to make a formal complaint. “I couldn’t be in a room with him because I felt unsafe. And that’s part of the policy but obviously the policy needs to be reviewed in that regard.” “I love my work, and I don’t want to leave it, but I did feel like I was going to have to because it was going to be the only way to try and stop the situation,” she said.