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The View is back with our 9th edition featuring a deep dive into the under-diagnosis of neurodiversity in girls, that may lead to enmeshment with the criminal justice system through poor choices in later life. We meet Dorian Ravenscroft who describes having ADHD as her superpower, and the director of a charity that helps people with neurodiverse conditions in prison, Sarah Templeton. We’ve spoken to serving prison officers who are literally buckling under the weight of trauma while firefighting to keep dysfunctional, dangerous and overcrowded prisons open. Angela Kirwin’s book Criminal takes a look at the justice system and where it is failing all of us, from her unique, insider perspective and justice transformer Pauline McCabe who recently joined the committee which scrutinises deaths in custody laments the English prison estates’ horrific track record and its apparent inability to keep the most vulnerable women in our society safe. The untimely death of Sinead O’Connor has had us all feeling the frayed edges of our mortality. How many of us will make a real difference, will have the courage to stand up, rip it up, never shut up? And what great cost? We ponder on her immense contribution to feminism, to reform in Ireland and globally and to catching out RTE’s disgraced Ryan Tubridy a decade before the sponsorship scandal caught popular imagination. Our regular contributor and Just Stop Oil campaigner, Zoe Cohen recounts her personal hell as a defendant at Southwark Crown Court, where the irresponsible judge refused to allow her to bring the defence of necessity in her trail, where she was accused of breaking windows at Barclays Bank, bankers to the oil and gas companies slowly destroying our planet. With a focus on how climate crises affect women and children more gravely, this issue highlights the urgent need to take individual and collective actions now.