A new survey of students has found that 8% of females and 3% of males were certain someone had sexual contact with them when they were unable to provide consent because they were drunk, passed out or otherwise incapacitated in the past year.

Female students are more likely to experience sexual harassment as they progress through college, according to a survey.

Young people’s ambivalence towards what constitutes sexual consent when alcohol is involved is captured in new research which shows that while the majority of college students (86%) agree that alcohol impacts on the ability to give consent, more than a third (37%) feel that a woman can still give consent after drinking heavily.

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