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”.

A consent campaign has been launched in Cork city targeting third level students - especially those on their first week in college.

"Every year we would have come across young women who were raped on holiday."

I am writing this from the Metropole Hotel in Cork, where I was invited to be their writer-in-residence for January, writes Louise O'Neill.

#thisisnotconsent

Many jet into Cork from cities across the world to target local clients.

Three teenage female college students have been raped in Cork since the start of the university term.

They were hastily arranged, emotionally charged protests, but the message was unanimous: The manner in which cases of rape and sexual abuse are handled needs to change.

A woman who has worked tirelessly for the last 35 years helping victims of domestic violence has called for separate courts to fast-track cases of sexual assault and rape, as well as the introduction of mandatory sentences.

The head of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork has described a tripling in the city’s reported rape figures as a “wake-up” call.

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

Two daughters of a Cork man sentenced to 10 years in jail today for sexually abusing them over a number of years have told 3News that they had adored him, but he took their childhood innocence.

More than half of all sexual assault and rape victims attending the Sexual Violence Centre Cork last year did not report the incident to gardaí.

Rape crisis centres, women’s groups and the Policing Authority have welcomed the establishment of four divisional specialist units to investigate domestic, sexual and child abuse.

There has been a 20% jump in sexual offences reported to gardaí in the southern region in the first three months of this year, figures show.

A transition-year team told classmates yesterday: “No means no.”

Members of a college feminist group who have been subjected to sustained, vile, and lewd online abuse for almost three years have launched a fightback campaign.

Two high-profile organisations that support victims of sexual violence have condemned Amnesty International for voting in favour of decriminalising prostitution, and one has cancelled its membership of the human rights body.

Glaring discrepancies between the prosecution description of sexual offences at the centre of a case and the account given by the victim yesterday prevented the judge from proceeding to sentence the accused.

The chairman of the Oireachtas committee on justice has said that some serious offenders, including repeat rapists, should be electronically tagged if released from prison early.

Let’s talk about sex, Cork.

One of the country’s leading forensic psychologists has said the man responsible for raping two girls, aged six and nine, in Westmeath may not have been motivated by sexual desire but by an overwhelming urge to be violent.

Former lord mayor of Cork John Murray was jailed for one year yesterday for sexually assaulting a girl from when she was 13 years old, as the judge said he felt his hands were tied on the issue of sentencing.

DESPITE the ongoing debate in Britain, there are no plans here to introduce pornography filtering in Ireland, according to the Department of Justice.

Mary Crilly is unequivocal: she wants to see porn filters being put in place in this country, similar to what is being planned in the UK.

A hard-hitting sexual assault awareness campaign targeting potential offenders has been launched at Irish universities to encourage men to change their attitudes.

Cork City Council has become one of the largest local authorities to back a national campaign to make the buying of sex illegal.