More than half of Irish women have experienced sexual violence, CSO survey finds

Sexual violence was defined in the CSO survey as a range of non-consensual experiences, from non-contact experiences to non-consensual sexual intercourse.

Four in 10 Irish adults have experienced sexual violence, new data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has shown.

The rate is higher among women (52%) than men (28%), while 78% of people who responded knew who the perpetrator was.