DOMESTIC violence is a “hidden” and “heinous” crime which must carry more serious penalties for perpetrators, opposition parties stressed last night.

I WAS bitterly disappointed when I heard of the closure threat to the National Domestic Violence Intervention Agency (NDVIA).

WITH two totally unrelated strokes of a pen, the Government has managed to do what it has failed abjectly to do in the past decade, and that is to put domestic violence seriously on the political agenda.

A UNITED front of women’s welfare groups yesterday helped to secure Government funding to save the National Domestic Violence Intervention Agency (NDVIA) from closure.

IT IS disingenuous of Justice Minister Michael McDowell to insinuate that the National Domestic Violence Intervention Agency, a Government-funded pilot body that for the past three years has provided invaluable support for victims of domestic violence, is somehow to blame for closing down after running out of State funding.

An agency set up to offer support to victims of domestic violence has reversed a threat to close its doors because of a lack of funding commitments from the Government.

An agency set up to offer support to victims of domestic violence is being forced to close because of a lack of funding commitments from the Government.

WHEN Mary Robinson was last in Ireland for a public engagement she made an impassioned appeal on behalf of the many struggling countries she visits.

The plight of the National Domestic Violence Intervention Agency (NDVIA), which is faced with closure tomorrow because of lack of funds, is symptomatic of the chauvinistic attitude of the present Government towards violence against women.

A DEPARTMENT of Justice report recommended an intervention approach to tackle domestic violence be rolled out nationally, but six months later the pilot project is closing down.

Lack of funding will force the closure of National Domestic Violence Agency next week, writes Conor Ryan.

THE silence of both Justice Minister Michael McDowell and his junior minister Frank Fahey, amid mounting concerns about the fate of the National Domestic Violence Intervention Agency, is absolutely deafening.

MEN who abuse their partners are manipulating the court system to escape convictions, according to the project piloted to tackle the problem.

THE National Domestic Violence Intervention Agency (NDVIA) recently called on the Garda Siochána to make domestic violence one of its 10 top priorities.

THE Garda Síochána was called on yesterday to make tackling domestic violence one of its top 10 priorities.

Domestic violence victims in Ireland are suffering unprecedented levels of abuse and social workers are now literally struggling to save the lives of women within the home, it was claimed today.

THE new pilot scheme for victims of domestic violence will cater for men and women, the Department of Justice insisted yesterday.

A new agency to tackle domestic violence will be launched later this morning by the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell.