Last weekend, the Alliance Party leader Naomi Long decided to highlight the abuse she was being subjected to on Twitter.

She's well used to the attacks, though she felt some of them were particularly nasty,

and there did seem to be more of them than usual, presumably, because her party conference was taking place on Saturday,

and her media profile was high.

On Sunday politics,

she told me the abuse had been particularly appalling for 72 hours and she'd had enough of what she called these squalid and misogynistic messages. And she also called for changes in how the

social media platforms operate to make them safer spaces for women to use.

So that's what we're discussing on this week's red lines.

And it just happens to be International Women's Day as well.

So there's an extra relevance to our conversation.

Deirdre, what did you make of what Naomi Long had to say at the weekend?

Well, Naomi Long talking about abuse was disturbing, it was disgusting, but I have to say

it wasn't surprising. I thought it was important that she reflected to say that she'd had

this abuse over a prolonged period of time and she normally ignored it, but she'd simply

decided that enough was enough and she had to call it out. And I think that probably reflects what most women feel when they're in social media.

You know, you're in a dilemma.

You are being abused.

You're subject to abuse.

But do you call it out and risk people saying, or you're just drawing attention to yourself?

Don't you know this is banter?

Have you no resilience or you're just a snowflake? You're woke.

Or do you actually say, no, enough's enough. And I've decided that I'm not going to put up with this anymore and hope that other people will row in behind you.

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