I'm gonna address a couple of things that people have brought up
1) I've never not said that I wasn't talking about my rape publicly before 14th Nov 2018, I'd done articles with http://her.ie  , an Echochamber podcast about rape and I was heading up AASVI at that point

2) The internet is not national lunch time radio. In fact the two are quite different

3) my father reads The Evening Herald, watches the RTE News and listens to Newstalk in the car. I know his routines and media preferences. I had disclosed to my brother who may have seen those media outlets. My dad would never have.

4) I text him to tell him to listen in as I was there as part of a live broadcast about a case about a 17 year old girl who's knickers were held up in court. I was there as a rep of AASVI. The context had absolutely zero to do with my rape

5) Ciara stated that I had been on previously talking about my experience with sexual violence. My previous time had been as "Linda, a listener" not as Linda Hayden of AASVI. I tried to steer the conversation away from that

6) It was then said in the middle "so Linda, you have your own experience of sexual violence, did you report what happened to you?"

To say there was any other context to that other than what it was is disingenuous. She was asking about my rape. Was I going to refuse to answer?

Bearing in mind I was on national radio, and I was there as a rep of an organisation that wanted to remove shame culture. There was no asking of consent to talk about it beforehand, and there was no option for me not to talk about it without appearing unprofessional

7) I didn't say anything at the time because I believed it was a mistake. A huge mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. When I did mention it two years later people reacted in a very big way. My biggest issue is that she has never acknowledged it, she blocked me and never apologised

I am not clarifying this any further. I'm beyond sick of talking about it. My solicitors can handle all queries. Remember, consent counts for everything, it has to be ongoing, freely given and actively sought, this counts for talking about people's abuse as well as in sex.