Calls for legislation on image-based sexual abuse

On Tuesday, Justice Minister Helen McEntee launched the Harassment, Harmful Communications, and Related Offences Bill. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The mother of a woman who took her own life after sensitive images were posted online has appealed to the Government to immediately outlaw image-based sexual abuse.

Dara Quigley died in 2017, shortly after she learned that CCTV images of her being detained under the Mental Health Act while naked on a Dublin street had been widely shared by a member of the Gardaí.