Rape counsellors: Diageo-funded advert targets victims of sexual abuse

The Diageo-funded campaign against alcohol abuse is to continue using its latest advertisement despite criticism from rape counsellors that it targets victims of sex crimes.

A war of words has erupted over the advertisement, condemned by the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland as “sinister, harmful, regressive, and hurtful”.

The Stop Out of Control Drinking campaign said the advertisement had been “wildly misunderstood and misinterpreted”, and called the RCNI’s criticism “entirely unworthy”.