Asylum seekers in the Direct Provision system are vulnerable to sexual violence, a report has warned.

The explosion in digital media has led to a growing problem of online abuse, which is frequently targeted at women, often with serious and damaging consequences.

Rape support services are facing an unprecedented funding crisis, with one of the country?s biggest centres forced to shut its doors because it cannot pay its staff.

The Rape Crisis Midwest is to close two of its centres for a month due to lack of funding.

The amount of porn young teenagers are accessing is causing so much damage to their psychological growth it must be seen as a major public health crisis.

Mother of young victim details family anguish as man gets life sentences for rape of girls, aged 6 and 9

Sexual consent is a “grey area” for students that is negotiated silently and clouded by alcohol.

Young people need to be given the tools to report on whether they've been a victim of sexual violence, the Rape Crisis Network has said.

Irish teenagers can’t talk about sex never mind find the confidence to refuse or report unwanted sex, according to a new report.

An adult entertainer has claimed an amateur Irish DJ is an internet troll who emailed her with rape threats.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has said it would be slow to recommend a change in the age of consent from 17 to 16.

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is to sever all ties with DrinkAware in a row over the promotion of Arthur’s Day, which promotes Guinness.

Over a third of people who carry out child sexual abuse are children themselves - and the vast majority are boys.

More than a third of children sexually assaulted or raped are attacked by another minor, it has emerged.

A groundbreaking report on child rape and sexual abuse shows the average age of an offender is 26, over a third of abusers are children, and family members pose the greatest threat to children — not ‘stranger danger’.

Gardaí said medical tests along with CCTV footage and witness statements will show if there is evidence to substantiate claims by a college student that she was raped by a taxi driver.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has confirmed the man being questioned in connection with an alleged incident in Athlone did not have a criminal record for sex offences against children.

An Garda Síochána repeatedly refused to make any information available to the Irish Examiner on its two-year investigation into how gardaí handled allegations of clerical abuse in the Murphy Report.

We, the undersigned, call on Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter and all Oireachtas members to support amending the Courts Bill 2013 to regulate the admission of the counselling notes of the child witness in a sexual violence criminal case.

The Rape Crisis Network has backed a proposal by Dutch MEPs to ban all forms of pornography, which would include internet porn.

Health concerns and the cost are the two main reasons why smokers want to kick the habit.

The system must ensure that sentences for convicted rapists reflect the crime, writes Dan Buckley

Rape adds complexity to a pregnancy and that demands great compassion, writes Fiona Neary

Rape crisis groups have hit out at comments made in the abortion debate which they say simplify and generalise associations between pregnancy through rape and abortion.

New court procedures have been introduced to lessen the trauma faced by victims of serious crime in trials.

Victims of sexual abuse who report the crime to gardaí have to wait almost three years for sentencing in cases where charges are brought.

Record damages of €4m awarded by the High Court to a 55-year-old woman who was repeatedly raped and abused as a teenager may suggest juries are becoming more aware of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse, according to the Rape Crisis Network.

Child sex abuse survivors suffer in silence for a quarter of a century before seeking help for their trauma.

The vast majority of sex abuse survivors who sought help in Rape Crisis Centres last year were attacked as children, it was revealed today.

A pilot court project will dramatically cut waiting times for criminal trials, according to a leadingvictims’ organisation.

Disabled victims of sexual violence are more likely to have multiple attackers than victims with no disabilities, according to research.

An alarming picture of teenagers in the grip of pornography, as depicted by the Rape Crisis Centre, underlines the urgent need for the introduction of radical new sex education programmes in our schools.

Teenagers are being damaged by overexposure to pornography, with Ireland in the grip of a “catastrophe” of sexual violence, the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland has warned.

Older people shamed in to silence after suffering rape or sexually abuse when younger are coming forward for help, it emerged today.

A support group for victims of clerical abuse has accused the Vatican of failing to acknowledge its own role in perpetuating the protection of abusive priests at the expense of children.

People who work with children need to be trained to identify the effects of child sexual abuse.

TEENAGERS are being targeted and sexually abused the same way as adult women, according to a report.

Some 25% of rapes or sexual attacks last year took place in the family home a new report from the Rape Crisis Network has found.

SEXUAL violence is most likely to happen in the home or by a relative or partner of the victim, according to analysis of reports to support services last year.

GARDAÍ are expected to be given powers to identify convicted sex offenders where there is a danger to the public, Justice Minister Alan Shatter has confirmed.

JUSTICE MINISTER Alan Shatter said it is up to gardaí to investigate whether or not the operators of the school where paedophile Michael Ferry worked broke any criminal law.

Our hypersexualised society is having devastating consequences for children, with teen rape cases far more commonplace writes Claire O’Sullivan

THE 25 rape victims whose criminal cases may be thrown out due to a nurse’s failure to register with the nursing board met with gardaí and the DPP yesterday to discuss the consequences for their cases.

Concerns have emerged over the cases of 25 people who were examined at the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit at Letterkenny General Hospital following an administrative error by the HSE.

A RANGE of rape crisis groups, women’s organisations and human rights bodies have reacted with outrage at recordings of gardaí joking about raping a woman.

SEVEN out of 10 child sex abuse victims who sought help from rape crisis centres last year were assaulted by more than one person.

Rape and child sexual abuse are endemic in Ireland and are not going away, campaigners warned today.

Only one quarter of sex attack victims reported their ordeal to the Garda, a report revealed today.

THE Rape Crisis Network has warned 96FM presenter Neil Prendeville’s lewd behaviour aboard a London-Cork flight must be “rightly recognised” as “sexually harmful behaviour and as a crime”.

HIGH-PROFILE radio broadcaster Neil Prendeville could be interviewed by gardaí within days about the incident in which he exposed and masturbated himself on an Aer Lingus flight.