A second report on clerical abuse in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin is to be published.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has reported a 300% increase in calls to its helpline following the publication of the Murphy report into child sexual abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese.

The Catholic hierarchy in Ireland was granted immunity to cover up child sex abuse among paedophile priests in Dublin, a damning report revealed today.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said its counsellors are already flat out dealing with calls ahead of the publication of the report into clerical sex abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese.

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.

Four organisations working in the area of child sex abuse held a meeting in Dublin this afternoon to consider the fallout from the Supreme Court ruling in the 'C' case case and new laws on underage sex.

It is unacceptable that Dublin rape victims cannot access medical help at weekends and it won’t happen again, the Taoiseach told the Dáil.

The length of time taken to bring a person charged with murder or rape to court should be cut in half, a new report has found.

A former priest in the Diocese of Ferns today made his first appearance in court to face 35 counts of indecent assault.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has reported record levels of calls to its helpline last year.

It has emerged that many rape victims around the country have been left without medical treatment over the past month.

More than one half of all calls made to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre helpline last year related to childhood sexual assault, a 30% increase over the past eight years.

A full-scale review of all child abuse files within the Health Service Executive (HSE) must be taken immediately, it was warned tonight.

Dozens of women demonstrated outside the Dáil over the so-called “rape tape” scandal in which garda officers joked about raping two female protesters.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, Amnesty, the Council for Civil Liberties and One in Four have all condemned comments allegedly made by gardaí in Co Mayo, in which they allegedly joked about threatening to rape a female anti-Shell protestor who had been arrested.

The Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte has described reports of alleged garda misconduct at the Corrib gas pipeline in Mayo as "unedifying".

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre says it helped an average of one rape victim every day during the month of December.