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'There was no anaesthetic, nothing': Call for urgent action to protect girls in Ireland from FGM
'I used to cut the girls, sometimes I would cut the wrong part and they would bleed terribly'
How people in Cork are fighting back against FGM
'Whenever you talk about female genital mutilation there's a backlash'
Irish project helping to end child marriage in Nepal
'I was haunted by the blood I caused by circumcising girls'