The full study will come out next month. New statistics from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that four in ten adults have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime. The survey shows a clear difference in sex and age and showed that over half of women (52%) had experienced some type of sexual violence, whereas […]
2 years ago
Waiting lists are only increasing. *Content warning – this article contains references to sexual assault and rape.* Survivors of sexual assault and violence now have to wait over a year to see a counsellor after the services saw major underfunding. According to rape crisis centres across Ireland, due to severe underfunding, there are now long […]
4 years ago
“Why is it that we still blame the victim?” There has been a call for a “whole of society approach” to tackling sexual violence in Ireland. CEO of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC), Noeline Blackwell, said today that although Ireland has come an extremely long way in the past four decades, there is still […]
6 years ago
It will be the second report of its kind in 16 years
8 years ago
While the Taoiseach visited France this week, updating us with vlogs, Simon Coveney took the leaders’ questions in the Dáil. Busy battling his own #CoveneyforTaoiseach demons, he wasn’t prepared to expend much energy on pesky questions from female TDs about sexual violence in Ireland and the government’s consistent will to ignore the problem. Coveney barely […]
8 years ago
Plans are in place to crack down on revenge porn here too.
9 years ago