Monday is the day for the screening of Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars, part-concert film, part music documentary.

A consent campaign has been launched in Cork city targeting third level students - especially those on their first week in college.

"Every year we would have come across young women who were raped on holiday."

Many jet into Cork from cities across the world to target local clients.

A woman who has worked tirelessly for the last 35 years helping victims of domestic violence has called for separate courts to fast-track cases of sexual assault and rape, as well as the introduction of mandatory sentences.

The head of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork has described a tripling in the city’s reported rape figures as a “wake-up” call.

Rape crisis centres, women’s groups and the Policing Authority have welcomed the establishment of four divisional specialist units to investigate domestic, sexual and child abuse.

There has been a 20% jump in sexual offences reported to gardaí in the southern region in the first three months of this year, figures show.

A transition-year team told classmates yesterday: “No means no.”

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Members of a college feminist group who have been subjected to sustained, vile, and lewd online abuse for almost three years have launched a fightback campaign.

The chairman of the Oireachtas committee on justice has said that some serious offenders, including repeat rapists, should be electronically tagged if released from prison early.

Let’s talk about sex, Cork.

DESPITE the ongoing debate in Britain, there are no plans here to introduce pornography filtering in Ireland, according to the Department of Justice.

Mary Crilly is unequivocal: she wants to see porn filters being put in place in this country, similar to what is being planned in the UK.

A PRIEST in the Diocese of Ferns has launched a stinging attack accusing the “wives and mothers of Ireland” of failing to deal with the abuse of their children by other family members.

FIVE new allegations of child sexual abuse at a Cork school were received by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the past month, according to the order.

COUNSELLING services throughout the country have reported a significant increase in calls from people seeking help following the publication of the Cloyne report.

THE number of 14-year- olds being counselled following sexual assault in Cork almost doubled between 2009 and 2010 and many of the alleged abusers were other teenagers.

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

A RAPIST who was jailed for 15 years on Tuesday masturbated in court while his victim gave her evidence, it has emerged.

CORK was urged last night to honour a pioneering Irish woman who fought her entire life for American workers’ and women’s rights.

CELEBRITY chef Rachel Allen has backed a special fundraising concert next month that will help women who are victims of violence in Cork and women who survived the Haiti earthquake.

PRESSURE mounted on the Government last night to do more for victims of sex trafficking after the plight of four such women was revealed by the Irish Examiner.

I WAS disappointed with the biased report from the Cork Sexual Violence Centre, as covered by The Irish Examiner (December 13).

MORE than 200 prostitutes are working in Cork and around 90% of them are foreign, according to an organisation that wants to protect women who are trafficked into the city from Eastern Europe.

Dan Buckley and Colette Keane

SURVIVORS of child abuse should not suffer in silence.