60% of women killed lose life in own homes; Survivors call for women and children to be put first

A leading advocacy group and those directly impacted by domestic violence have demanded increased supports for families bereaved due to domestic homicide and suggested the issue of unseen coercive control perpetrated by hidden abusers is an underlying problem in society.

The call were made as a new report revealed that nine in ten women who have been killed in Ireland over the past 23 years have died at the hands of a man they knew.