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SiSi is a collective of women survivours of intimate partner violence, working together to drive change and transform the systems that impact our lives.
We are survivour-led and rooted in lived experience. We challenge injustice, influence systems, and advocate for repsonses that genuinely support safety, recovery, and long-term wellbeing.
We envision an Ireland where intimate partner violence is not tolerated, and where survivors' voices actively shape the laws, policies, and services designed to protect us and others.
Supporting Individual Survivors
Experts by Experience
Advocacy to support positive Policy and Legislative Change
A Sustainable Organisation
Mary-Louise Lynch is the Founding Director of SiSi where she strategically leads a collective of women survivors of intimate partner violence to drive change and transform systems. After spending a decade and a half navigating the complexities of escaping an abusive relationship, Mary-Louise saw how difficult and unfair systemic responses to women in her position can be. She has learned a thing or two about surviving post-separation abuse and founded SiSi to share her learning with others and where possible to use her platform to raise up other women to become leaders and be recognised as experts by experience.
Starting to work to address intimate partner violence and abuse over a decade ago. Mary-Louise leads SiSi as a voluntary organisation and continues to build a place where women find peer support, mentorship, advice and information, informed by the experience of other survivors. Mary-Louise puts success down to the courage of women who have gone before her and on difficult days she remembers that until men's violence against women is stamped out there will always be women in need of SiSi.
