A human rights lawyer is warning landlords that asking for sex in lieu of rent is a criminal offence.

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has confirmed a large survey of renters will go ahead next year including questions about whether tenants have experienced sexual harassment from landlords.

A rape victim who successfully campaigned for victim impact statements to be introduced in court said hearing the Kriegels' words after their daughter’s killers were convicted of murder and sexual assault were “the most important" she’s heard since she started campaigning.

The rape crisis centre’s 24-hour helpline has received many calls from women complaining about the inappropriate behavior of landlords.

A murder accused has testified that she feels she wouldn’t be in her current situation had she not been abused as a child.

Ireland is in the grip of a sexual violence epidemic, according to the chief executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC).

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said Paddy Jackson has not taken steps to show his attitude towards women has changed.

A convicted murderer has received a 15-year prison sentence for raping a woman in her home nine years ago.

"You have a right to say no and a right to move comfortably throughout the world without being sexually harassed."

There was a time when securing a former county GAA player or other sports personality was a major coup for any political party.

“It must be part of a broader understanding to colleges that such behaviour is not acceptable."

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The No side wanted lawyer Maria Steen to represent them in tonight's TV debate; RTE had previously announced Cora Sherlock would represent the No side with Sinn Féin's Peadar Toibin.

When asked why she never objected to going with her brother when he would ask her to go for a walk or sent for her, the woman said she was terrified of him. “What was I going to do? He had told me he was going to shoot my mother,” she said.

Transition Year students will be given classes on sexual consent under a new scheme.

One of the two daughters of a Cork man sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for sexually abusing them over a number of years has told RTÉ Radio One's Today with Sean O'Rourke programme that she still loves her father.

Two sisters who were regularly raped and abused by their father have encouraged other victims to come forward.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has criticised the leniency of the sentence handed down to Tom Humphries.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has called for media guidelines on the discussion of sexual assault following controversial comments by Newstalk presenter George Hook last week.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has called for media guidelines on the discussion of sexual assault following controversial comments by Newstalk presenter George Hook last week.

Almost €400,000 out of a nationwide total of more than €1.5m was paid into Kerry District Court poor boxes last year.

A Tipperary man who raped a 12-year-old boy after luring him down a lane will be sentenced next week.

There are just 21 refuges in Ireland for ‘battered’ wives and partners with 4,796 requests for refuge not met in 2015, say Caroline Forde, Carol Ballantine, and Nata Duvvury

A Cork man has been found guilty of raping his former partner two months after he sexually assaulted her and then beat her up in front of their crying toddler.

The lack of dedicated sexual assault treatment units for children is adding “immensely” to the trauma of families trying to deal with child sex abuse.

A rape survivor has urged people who were attacked to come forward instead of staying silent, but admitted that living through the memory of what happened during the hospital examination was “like being raped again”.

A Dublin man who raped his nephew’s wife while she was sleeping beside her husband and toddler has been sentenced to eight years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.

“Dear Louise, I was raped five years ago and I have been in counselling ever since. After reading your book, for the first time in five years I thought — maybe it was not my fault.”

Caroline Forde looks at how specialist services can help survivors of sexual violence work through the traumatic consequences at their own pace, and argues that such services must be freely available to all.

The head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre is backing the use of a novel product that will be available in pubs soon.

All patrol cars are to carry crime prevention kits, including digital cameras, to help gardaí gather evidence in domestic violence callouts.

A Limerick man has been sentenced to 12 and a half years imprisonment for punching, kicking, and repeatedly raping a woman in her home.

A Limerick man has been sentenced to 12 and a half years imprisonment for punching, kicking and repeatedly raping a woman in her home.

One of the country’s key rape support services has warned massive funding cuts could leave abandoned four out of five survivors of abuse.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused of staying "silent" on the IBRC deals controversy, Gardaí have launched a murder investigation after a 25-year-old man died in west Dublin, a 58-year-old Irish nun visiting Rome was trapped in an elevator for three days and John Delaney is urged to take a voluntary 50% pay cut. Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

A victim of childhood sexual abuse was saved by the assistance she received from the Rape Crisis Centre. Attempts to cut funding for these centres will cost lives and silence victims, says ‘Rosie’ 

A man has been given a suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a woman as she slept at a party.

A man has been given a suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a woman as she slept at a party.

Sinn Féin’s child protection officer has claimed a backbench Government TD is only raising concerns over the alleged cover-up of rapes by the Provisional IRA to improve her chances in the next general election.

A Dublin man will be sentenced next month for the repeated rape of his partner’s then 11-year-old daughter in her Galway home.