Louise O'Neill presents Asking For It, a documentary based on her much-discussed 2015 novel. While the book was a fictional account of gang-rape at a summer party, it was very much steeped in real-life accounts of rape and victim-blaming.
The documentary looks at our attitudes to consent and the rise in sexual assaults in Ireland.
Like her novel, the documentary tackles the complexities around sexual consent and the clash between traditional Irish attitudes to rape and the modern world of social media.
In the documentary tonight, O'Neill looks at how 4 out of every 10 Irish women would be the victims of sexual assault in their lifetimes and shows how we need to talk about consent, and how everyone needs to be part of a conversation on the subject.
Director Troalach O'Buachalla and producer Pamela Drynan spoke about how the project for RTÉ began and the women they interviewed.
