Irish Examiner View: Fight sexual violence as if it were a virus

We need to do more to tackle the 'shadow pandemic'

It was profoundly dispiriting that International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Wednesday was marked with a new report showing that almost 15% of Irish adults have been raped, while more than a third have experienced some kind of sexual violence.

The research, carried out by Trinity College Dublin and Maynooth University, was the first study on the prevalence of sexual violence in Ireland since the landmark Sexual Assault and Violence in Ireland (Savi) report in 2002 and, nearly two decades on, it appears that we have not made much progress.