Calls for research to overcome ‘antiquated data’ in combating sexual violence

“The trouble is we have been trying to identify how best to combat sexual violence without modern data. It’s not even that it’s not up to date; it’s just antiquated.”

There are calls for a large research project to be carried out into sexual abuse in Ireland.

The last in-depth study, the SAVI report, was done 15 years ago but the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre says the country has changed a lost since then, with social media, more same sex couples, different cultures and a different economy.