LIMERICK Rape Crisis Centre statistics demonstrate that a mere 11% of survivors of all forms of sexual violence ever report these crimes to the gardaí.

VICTIMS of rape and sexual abuse are waiting four months for counselling in some parts of the country because of a lack of funding.

LIMERICK County Council will today join calls for the opening of a sexual assault unit at the Mid- Western Regional Hospital.

A Brazilian man who raped a 23-year-old Limerick woman is on the run.

A minute’s silence has been held outside the Dáil to mark the International Day Against Violence Against Women.

A 35-YEAR-OLD woman was being treated in hospital last night after a horrific gang rape involving one man and four teenagers.

THERE has been a “phenomenal” increase in the number of drug-assisted rape reports, a counsellor said yesterday.