As O’Donovan was being taken into custody by prison officers he said: 'I want to go home. My brother is waiting for me'

The young woman claims that her father sexually assaulted her on Christmas Eve night

The complainant, who was 19 at the time, wept as she described the allegation

The 64-year-old pleaded guilty to the offence as the jury was about to be sworn in to hear the case

Only a third of those engaging with DRCC had reported the crimes to gardaí — but more and more survivors are coming forwards 

The 45-year-old faces five counts of raping and seven counts of sexually assaulting the complainant when the defendant and the complainant were both aged around 15 in 1990/1991.

In 2018, Slawomir Gierlowski was jailed for 22-and-a-half years, with four years suspended, for random attacks on three other women

The solicitor for the accused, who faces five rape charges and seven sexual assault charges, said his client was agreeing to only one of the three bail conditions

The victim said she does not think she will be able to trust anyone again like she trusted the accused

Councillor adds her story after TD says sexual assault of women is more common than many believe

He pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning the victim and sexually assaulting her by touching her breasts and kissing her lips.

The jury had been directed earlier in the trial to find the accused not guilty of rape.

The woman claimed she was sexually assaulted by the accused around 30 years ago on three occasions when she was aged from 12 to 14

The accused was allowed out on bail with a number of conditions

No identifying data is held by the country's Sexual Assault Treatment Units, a consultant has assured, amid fears personal data could be leaked.

Throughout the company investigation, the male worker argued that the alleged incident of gross misconduct did not take place during work time or on work premises

The girl had met the accused, who was known to her, on an isolated road

The accused teen seeks an order quashing the District Court's decision to return him for trial before the Circuit Criminal Court

The defendant was a friend of the 14-year-old girl's elder sister

A transgender woman who sexually assaulted her step-son and threatened to break his arms and legs has appealed the severity of her six-year sentence.

The 60-year-old will be released from custody this Friday having served a three-year sentence.

Fr Robert Kelly, the then Provincial of the Carmelite Order in Ireland, said he had no recollection of being told this by John McClean

The publican had pretended that she was the one who had made an advance on him but that he spurned her approach.

The 62-year-old man is charged with carrying out a sexual assault on a woman on Douglas Road in Cork on Friday, May 7

A taxi driver who sexually assaulted a late-night passenger after she passed out in his car has been jailed for four years.

The well-known retired Cork businessman faces 27 sexual offence charges against nine boy scouts.

Judge Daly noted the Garda Youth Diversion Bureau found the case was not suitable for a juvenile caution.

He was convicted for random attacks on three women over five years and jailed for a total of 18 years and six months in May 2018.

The 55-year-old publican had initially said he had apologised to the victim for rejecting her advances and hurting her feelings.

A book of evidence was served on a 64-year-old West Cork man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at the bus station at Parnell Place in Cork City during the summer.

The man was charged with 27 separate counts in respect of nine former boy scouts. 

He sacked his legal team and then said the change to guilty was a mistake and he wanted to go back to pleading not guilty.

Micheál Martin promised his support for the scheme during a meeting in Cork Penny Dinners with its co-ordinator Catriona Twomey and with Mary Crilly, founder Cork's Sexual Violence Centre

A Cork man accused of 46 counts of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter was unanimously found not guilty by a jury of seven women and five men.  He had admitted getting into the child’s bed to cuddle her but never for any sexual contact.

A homeless young woman told the man who sexually assaulted her that even though she was addicted to heroin and living in a tent that did not give anyone the right to touch her without her permission.

The Cork man is charged with 46 counts of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter on a monthly basis from when she was eight years old.

A Cork man went on trial today on 46 counts of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter on a monthly basis from when she was eight years old.

A 44-year-old man who invaded the home of a 20-year-old woman to sexually assault her and tell her she would wake up beside him avoided a jail sentence today.

A friend of John Leslie apologised over his behaviour after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at a Christmas party, a court has heard.

A group of UCC students has launched a new campaign focused on debunking myths surrounding sexual assault.  The students say the aim of the "Not Asking for it" project is to demonstrate that clothes do not determine consent.

The young woman had to move three times to get away from him.

The nurse had been unhappy with the manner in which prison management were dealing with her assault

Costica Hayes of St Vincent’s hostel, Anglesea Terrace, Cork, pleaded guilty to a sexual assault arising out of the incident at the railway station on July 6 last yea

A youth has pleaded guilty to threatening to "burn alive" and rape a mother and also sexually assault her young daughter in Dublin.