Law must tackle online threat - Sexual harassment

It is an extraordinary facility that allows communication from one end of the globe to another, linking friends and families in a way that was never possible before. Unfortunately, it has also become a means whereby nefarious and even criminal elements can use it to their own ends.
That has become all too evident in recent days with the revelation that in University College Dublin a Facebook group of 200 male students has been sharing and rating nude photos of female students on campus. Such harassment of young women is nothing new but what is new is the failure of the Irish legal system to address it in any meaningful way.