Protest march planned amid ‘epidemic of violence against women’

Ruth Coppinger of ROSA (centre) with Anne Waithira-Burke of AkiDwA (left) and Vivienne Glanville, national programme coordinator of Women’s Collective Ireland (Brian Lawless/PA)

A march planned in Dublin next week is to call for government action amid an “epidemic” of violence against women.

People are expected to gather at the Spire and march to Dáil Eireann next Wednesday, to coincide with International Women’s Day.