Drink culture blamed for sex assaults

NEARLY one-third of those who attended the country’s biggest sexual assault unit last year had suffered memory loss due to heavy drinking, according to its director.

Consultant gynaecologist Dr Mary Holohan has urged policy makers to tackle the growing binge drinking culture as she says a growing number of attacks are on drunk women and carried out by drunk men.

Three hundred people attended the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) at the Rotunda Hospital last year — an increase of 50 on 2002.