More than 300 cases of online child abuse were confirmed last year by a website used to report illegal content on the internet.

Tip-offs from Irish-based internet users regarding online child sex abuse are now as likely to feature reports of young boys being abused as young girls, according to an expert monitoring group.

Meeting dangerous people online, rather than watching pornography, is the greatest fear parents have when their children surf the web.

More than half of parents have not put any protections in place to protect their children from accessing harmful or inappropriate material online.

Teenagers have been warned over unwittingly creating pornography through the use of webcams which could be recording without their knowledge.

It could be several days before information on the three Irishmen who tried to pay a young girl to perform sex acts online is handed to gardaí, it emerged yesterday.

Ireland’s internet service providers have hit out at proposals that the Government should force them to introduce widespread automatic filters to block access by children to pornography.

IRISH Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide infrastructure that allows users to access the unimaginably vast and diverse content that companies and people anywhere in the world choose to make available on the internet.

Child protection organisations and senior gardaí have urged parents to monitor their children’s use of computers and smartphones after a video of a 14-year-old girl posing semi-naked was posted on the internet.

Holidaymakers have been warned to be wary of booking holidays online this summer due to a spike in complaints about fake hotel booking confirmation emails.

Just a fraction of parents concerned about their children accidently accessing illegal or upsetting content online have installed adequate software to block harmful material.

Parents in Ireland are failing to take basic steps to protect their children online, according to research from internet watchdog, Hotline.ie.

Campaigners against child abuse material available online are calling on the Department of Justice to bring in a range of measures, including laws to combat internet access to images of children of a sexual nature.

DISTRIBUTORS of child pornography are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to conceal their online activities, says internet watchdog Hotline.ie.

THE first case of child pornography being hosted on an Irish website came to light last year after eastern European criminals hijacked the site.

TECHNOLOGICALLY savvy children across Ireland can and almost certainly are using their mobile phones to “sext” sexually explicit images of themselves to others without the images being traceable.

REPORTS from the public regarding child porn and other illegal websites fell by almost a quarter last year, with internet watchdogs claiming the war was being won against criminal online content.

The vast majority of illegal websites reported to an Irish internet watchdog last year no longer exist or had the criminal content wiped, it emerged today.

AN IRISH internet watchdog received more than 2,500 reports of suspected child porn last year, it was revealed yesterday.

An Irish internet watchdog received more than 2,500 reports of suspected child porn last year, it was revealed today.

INTERNET service providers are virtually powerless to prevent cyber-bullying, with social networking sites fast becoming a popular vehicle for targeting vulnerable young people.

EFFORTS to tackle the problem of child pornography on the internet received a boost yesterday with the relaunch of a hotline developed by the Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland.

THE British Government is considering cutting internet access to people who download music and films illegally and it is likely if the move proves successful, similar measures may be introduced here.

PARENTS need to learn more about the internet to help ensure their children are using it safely, experts have warned.

INTERNATIONAL authorities are unable to act against almost half of all illegal internet sites identified by the Irish public, an industry watchdog warns.

Reports of child porn on the internet from Irish net surfers have more than doubled, a new report has revealed.

An Irish colleges' collaboration has won through to the finals of a prestigious international gaming industry awards.

More than half of Irish children are allowed to talk to strangers in internet chat rooms, it was revealed today.