Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan insists that Garda services are in place to respond to reports of domestic violence.

The Sexual Violence Centre Cork said women in violent relationships are in a “nightmare situation” and feared the violence could “ramp up”.

The sentencing of a man to 21 months for the new offence – which was enacted into law a year ago – comes as gardai reveal they are investigating 35 such incidents.

Amber uses make-up to create bruise-like marks on the right side of her face.

Political parties are being criticised for not making domestic violence an issue in the general election campaign.

Jess Casey finds out what someone can expect to hear when they call Women’s Aid

Two separate reports have revealed the level of abuse and harassment suffered by women in Ireland, and raise further concerns that there is an under-reporting of the violence they face.

Nine in ten women who have been killed in Ireland over the past 23 years have died at the hands of a man they knew.

With strangers making up just 13% of perpetrators of female homicide in Ireland, almost nine in 10 of these women have been killed by a man known to them.

Women were beaten with weapons, strangled or choked in around a quarter of reported domestic violence court cases, new research shows.

The legal ban on courts refusing bail to people facing domestic violence charges needs to be reviewed by the Government, according to Women’s Aid.

As Women’s Aid launches its new report on domestic abuse and the Irish criminal justice system, Ivana Bacik writes how despite recent positive legal reforms to the law on domestic and gender-based violence there continues to be serious issues in the system that need to be addressed immediately

The Woman's advocacy group believe that the 22-year-old has shown signs of increasingly “possessive behaviour ” towards Lucie Donlan.

Chief Justice says cases are being heard in ‘dreadful conditions’

The shock statistic is being unveiled as part of a human experiment between Women's Aid and AIB which showed unsuspecting Dublin shoppers how money can be used as a weapon.

More than 20,000 disclosures of domestic violence against women and children were made to Women's Aid last year.

Women’s Aid has described as a “scandal” the delay in the construction of the promised state-of-the-art family courts complex.

IS IT unreasonable to have hoped to get through the first week of 2019 without two women being brutally murdered? We are so regularly exposed to the killing of, and violence against women, it’s a concern that it becomes a part of background noise — something that is undeniably tragic, but also a fact of life, writes Alison O’Connor.

Even in a society where a man with 42 previous convictions, including one that led to a 15-year sentence for multiple rape and sexual assaults, is given a concurrent sentence for yet another rape — leading his victim to say he was given a “free rape” — there has been a profound shift in attitudes to violence against women.

Rita Simons and Bill Ward star in a musical adaptation of ‘Legally Blonde’, writes Esther McCarthy.

The Government may have to pull its multimillion-euro publicity campaign on domestic violence after victims said it insults them.

There needs to be an urgent review of marital rape law and legal guidelines after a sentence for an offender was reduced on appeal, say Women’s Aid and the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

Women’s Aid has welcomed measures in the Garda Policing Plan 2018 aimed at addressing problems in the recording and investigation of domestic violence.

Gardaí need to be trained and monitored in implementing domestic abuse policy and required to keep statistics, Women’s Aid has told the Policing Commission.

The effort in some media quarters to explain Alan Hawe’s familicide as an expression of abusive masculinity is beyond stupid, writes Victoria White. 

The head of the Department of Social Protection is emphasising that women who have been subjected to domestic abuse do not have to make attempts to contact their attacker in order to receive the lone parent’s allowance.

The director of Women’s Aid has described the #MeToo campaign, where people allege offensive or abusive behaviour they have experienced, as a “healthy movement.”