Counsellors were today bracing themselves for an onslaught of crisis calls after the latest horrific revelations of a Catholic Church cover-up of clerical sex abuse.

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin tonight rejected claims a Vatican summit to discuss clerical abuse scandals in Ireland was a wasted opportunity.

A conference on the experience of rape victims during trials gets underway in Dublin later.

All but one chapter of a harrowing child abuse report set to rock the Catholic Church in Ireland could be published at the end of next week.

The Christian Brothers, the worst offenders in the clerical child abuse scandal, tonight bowed to intense pressure and agreed to look for a possible new deal to make amends to its victims.

Dublin's Rape Crisis Centre says there has been an increase in the amount of people contacting its services since the Commission's Child Abuse report came out earlier this week.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre is urging people to be vigilant this bank holiday weekend.

More than one person was raped on average every day in Ireland this year, official crime figures have shown.

Two young men violently attacked and raped a middle-aged woman on a night-time walk, it emerged today.

The first group of specialist nurses qualified to forensically examine victims of rape graduated today.

Women were tonight urged to be vigilant of sexual predators who plan to target victims over the Easter bank holiday weekend.

Support groups for victims of child sex abuse are calling on the Government to delay the publication of the official report into clerical abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese.

More than half of all rape victims are preyed on by a stranger or someone they just met on a night out, it was revealed today.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre says its services are more in demand now than at any time in the past.

Child and sexual violence support groups called for a review of resources required for gardaí to investigate child sex abuse imagery and exploitation.

Ireland's most influential TikTokers are urging people to keep it 100 as part of a new consent campaign.

According to details released under the Freedom of Information Act, 287 people were sent to prison for these offences in 2018.

The founder of Claddagh Watch Patrol, a voluntary organisation that aims to prevent accidental deaths and suicides in Galway, has spoken of how a troubled man was released by emergency services last weekend and had to be stopped from entering the water on two occasions.

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Recorded violent crimes have soared in the last four years, with a surge in murder threats, serious assaults, and rapes.