The Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI) is facing "crunch-time" as demand for its expertise continues to grow but State funding support remains stagnant.

For the majority, men’s violence against women does not disturb their capacity to ‘realise their own potential’. But for women, we bear it and we become mentally unwell under its burden, writes Clíona Saidléar

Defendants should remain anonymous in rape trials unless they are convicted, according to the Bar Council of Ireland, a view supported by the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI).

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

One-quarter of sexual assaults reported to gardaí last year related to incidents that happened more than a decade ago.

There are no plans to increase the number of sexual assault treatment units across the country, Health Minister, Simon Harris has said.

Violent crimes rose sharply last year with increases in sexual offences, threats of murder, serious assaults, robberies of the person and aggravated burglaries.

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Decades of inquiries and testimonies revealed one thing: That everybody knew. So the task ahead of us now is to challenge the Irish culture of denial, writes Dr Clíona Saidléar

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Gardaí have been notified about graffiti in a Co Cork school’s boys toilets that invited people to pick a female student to be raped.

The head of the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI) said a conversation of “competition” developed around the Belfast rape trial.

Pre-recorded cross-examination should be piloted in the courts to better protect vulnerable witnesses such as rape victims, a report has found.

A bill to prevent schools from using their religious ethos to avoid providing objective and factual sex education is to be debated in the Dáil.

There were almost 17 more homicides on average every year over the last 14 years than were previously recorded, according to heavily qualified official statistics.

Rape Crisis Network Ireland has said the number of sexual violence offences recorded for 2017 is only the “tip of the iceberg” as they only represent those who report a crime against them.

The kind of premeditated manipulation practised with great skill by sex offenders also works on the friends, priests and TDs who are so often called on to write references, writes Clodagh Finn

We should not feel sympathy for Tom Humphries. One expert says we need to realise nothing happened to him, that it’s entirely of his own design, reports Joyce Fegan

Victims of sexual violence are being “silenced” following the State’s decision to cut off funding to a national data collection system, rape crisis agencies have said.

The Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI), responding to the Government’s announcement of a referendum to be held on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, call on participants in the public debate to be respectful and informed by the best available facts and compassionate understanding when discussing the realities facing girls and women in Ireland pregnant following rape.

Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) is to ask the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to clarify if the Government has a legal obligation to fund good data collection in the context of Tusla pulling funding for its database.

Taxi drivers in Dublin are being asked to provide DNA samples as part of an investigation into an alleged rape.

The crime-solving rate by gardaí has dropped substantially over a five-year period, according to the Central Statistics Office.

Rape Crisis Network Ireland has criticised Cork City Council after it passed a vote of condolence following the death of a former lord mayor who was convicted of sexual assault.

A definition of consent is urgently needed in Irish law but while we wait for the law to catch up, Jessica Casey hears how colleges are educating students on sexual consent

A legal row over data protection has erupted between the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI) and a State agency over its right to publish information gathered from abuse victims.

About a year and a half ago, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, stopped its €250,000 funding of the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI), effectively removing 70% of its funding overnight.

Targeting of the all- female cast of a new movie is a symptom of a wider misogyny, writes Áilín Quinlan

Almost half of lesbian, gay, and bisexual survivors of sexual assault waited more than 10 years to report the abuse, according to research by the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI).

We need to remove the myth that a rape victim who has consumed alcohol is in any way responsible for the crime committed against them, says Cliona Saidlear, head of the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI).

Almost 80% of women who suffer abuse in the home never report it, according to Safe Ireland, the charity that supports women and children experiencing domestic violence.

The introduction of a statutory definition for consent is being examined by the Department of Justice and Equality.