Cork sanctuary for homeless people suffering sexual violence would provide protection

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is to meet Cork leaders battling homelessness and sexual violence to discuss plans to open a pilot rape crisis shelter for homeless people who suffer sexual violence

Mary Crilly from Cork Sexual Violence Centre: 'No woman, no man, nobody should suffer like this.' Picture: Jim Coughlan

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is to meet Cork leaders battling homelessness and sexual violence in the coming days to discuss plans to open a pilot rape crisis shelter for homeless people who suffer sexual violence.

Pressure to open such a shelter has increased following a harrowing new report which found that more than one third of homeless people have been sexually assaulted.