A minute’s silence has been held outside the Dáil to mark the International Day Against Violence Against Women.

A 35-YEAR-OLD woman was being treated in hospital last night after a horrific gang rape involving one man and four teenagers.

THERE has been a “phenomenal” increase in the number of drug-assisted rape reports, a counsellor said yesterday.

A CONVICTED rapist is finally imprisoned after the recent decision by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

THE Rape Crisis Network Ireland has expressed concern at the large number of elderly people convicted of sex abuse offences who have all or some of their sentences suspended.

AN alarming rise in child sexual assaults for the first three months of this year is just “the tip of the iceberg” support group and counselling service Children At Risk in Ireland (CARI) said yesterday.

FEWER women may report rape because there is no nationwide network of sexual assault treatment centres in hospitals, experts have warned.

MORE than one million Irish viewers couldn’t take their eyes of this scene last week when Coronation Street serial killer Richard Hillman threatened to make his wife Gail Tilsley the next victim.

MERVYN Rundle has now spoken publicly about his 18-year ordeal (Irish Examiner, Jan 29).

THE Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) welcomes the successful conviction of Tim Allen on charges of possessing child pornography .

WOMEN’S rights groups predicts more married women will press charges against their spouses after a man was jailed yesterday for raping his wife.

THE recent media coverage of clerical sex abuse shows categorically that as a society we can no longer ignore or dismiss this devastating crime.

A EUROPEAN rape crisis helpline is being set up in response to the growing number of women who are raped and sexually assaulted while on holidays.

PAEDOPHILIES released from prison can continue to prey on children because they are not being monitored, it was warned last night.

The Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) welcomes today’s call

THE Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) would like to congratulate the gardaí on their intensive and continuing effort to track down internet child pornography users.

RAPE Crisis groups last night criticised proposals by Justice Minister Michael McDowell to allow rape cases be heard in local courts.

RAPE prosecutions have collapsed because inexperienced and ill-trained GPs are being drafted in to carry out specialist forensic examinations, the Mid-Western Health Board claims.

The Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) welcomes today's judgement in the Central Criminal Court where a Sligo man was convicted of raping his wife.