Listen Back: "Nowhere is safe in Monaghan Town for me" - LGBT+ member | NorthernSound
By Ronan Gargan · Northern Sound · 4 October 2026
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A member of the LGBT+ community from Monaghan believes there is nowhere safe in Monaghan Town for them.They say as a 20-year-old trans person, the only place th...
A member of the LGBT+ community from Monaghan believes there is nowhere safe in Monaghan Town for them.
They say as a 20-year-old trans person, the only place that they feel safe is in their own home.
The local young person says they have to travel to bigger cities like Dublin and Galway to feel accepted.
They say the level of abuse towards them has only got worse resulting is physical and mental abuse as they attempt to walk any streets in Monaghan Town.
Homophobic abuse towards members of the LGBT plus community across the region is on the rise. That's according to Sharon Casey who is a volunteer with Cavan & Monaghan Rainbow Youth which is an LGBTi+ youth project.
Sharon says there has been a marked increase in abuse towards members of the youth group especially in the past year. Ronan Gargan sends us this report.
Reporting by Ronan Gargan for Northern Sound, funded by the News Reporting Scheme. Republished by News Room under the scheme’s reuse permission.
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