Consent classes are to be rolled out to secondary schools and sports clubs across the country.

Any welcome for the news that college consent classes will be rolled out to secondary schools and sports clubs must be tempered by a question or two

That's according to a study on cyberbullying and sexting among young people.

Young people are frustrated with how sex education is taught in schools, particularly when it comes to consent.

The Government-commissioned report has also proposed that colleges should record and report incidents of sexual harassment, assault and rape on campuses - rather than leaving it to the gardai.

University College Dublin (UCD) has apologised to its Computer Science students after they received an email seeking help in developing a ‘consent’ app.

A heightened awareness of consent is one of a number of reasons why there has been an increase in young people seeking help from rape crisis centres.

From the Belfast rape trial to the historic referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment, to the shocking CervicalCheck scandal and concerted interventions to address the gender pay gap, 2018 has been quite the roller coaster when it comes to women’s advancement, writes Political Correspondent Elaine Loughlin

What does it take for a women to report a rape?

Following international coverage of protests sparked by comments about a girl’s underwear during a rape trial first reported in the ‘Irish Examiner’, we ask a law expert and an activist to examine the issues.

This week Rosa, the socialist feminist movement, an organisation I have been a part of long before I was a city councillor, called a rally in Cork after disgraceful details of a Central Criminal Court case held in Cork emerged.

Protests are taking place this afternoon calling for an overhaul of how rape trials are conducted.

The Education Committee is to examine how sexual consent classes are being taught in colleges across the country.

Colleges and universities could be forced to provide compulsory sexual consent classes after a shock report found two-thirds of young women have been pressured into sex or faced crude sexual taunts while on campus.

Most students experience sexual harassment while at college, according to a nationwide survey.

The Dublin Rape Crisis centre says reforming our rape laws will give victims more confidence to report the crime.

TDs and Senators are being invited to take part in a seminar on Sexual Consent this morning at Leinster House.

Max Pemberton, an English psychiatrist who studies behavioural attitudes in teenagers, says your child may look and talk like an adult, but that the prefrontal cortex is the last part of the brain to fully develop. (I could name a few TDs who communicate like adults, but whose juvenile actions confirm that their prefrontal cortex has not developed or is missing altogether.)

A Galway man accused of orally raping a woman while giving her a lift home told gardaí they had a consensual encounter which “felt chemical”, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Latest: The Principal of Davis College, Stephen Gilbert, has today confirmed that three 'rape lists' were circulated in the school.

In France, a 3D model of a clitoris is passed around primary and secondary schools during sex education classes. “Oh that’s just the sexually-liberated French for ya,” you might say, writes Joyce Fegan.

The PSNI has said a festive-themed tweet sent from its account about rape has been taken out of context, after being criticised by social media users.

The decision by the Girl Scouts of America urging parents not to encourage their daughters to hug relatives during the festive period has sparked widespread controversy.