Around nine requests a day for refuge had to be refused last year because the services were full.

Ireland’s younger generation is still immersed in “lad culture”, with younger women having to regularly deal with serious and often intimidating behaviour from men.

Frontline domestic and sexual violence services were “almost totally ignored” in the budget for the 6th year running, it has been claimed.

The economic cost of domestic violence on an individualised basis has been put at almost €116,000 in a study that followed the journey of 50 women from abuse to recovery.

At least 70% of gardaí should receive specific domestic violence training, a national charity working in the area has said.

The mother of two boys murdered by their father says she wants convicted killers to wait longer for parole.

Sometimes you have to write it down in a type of list format to make the point, even to yourself. 

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Criminalising coercive control in the home will keep women alive but the law has yet to be implemented, says social change agency Safe Ireland.

Criminalising coercive control in the home will keep women alive but the law has yet to be implemented, says social change agency Safe Ireland.

A new, unified national intervention programme for perpetrators of domestic violence is to be rolled out by the Government.

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

Making control and domination in the home an offence will save women’s lives, Safe Ireland has claimed.

Women and children threatened by violence are not protected by the current Domestic Violence Bill, according to Safe Ireland.