The national rape crisis helpline had its busiest year last year with the number getting in touch reaching 12,855.

The number of prosecutions for rape or sexual assault has more than doubled over the past 10 years.

Latest: A solicitor says the suspect in an alleged rape case may not have been charged for a number of reasons.

A major hunt is under way for three men after a woman was dragged away from her bike, pulled into a park, and raped.

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The head of a victims’ support charity has called for guidelines on how the media cover the issue of rape.

One of the most high-profile Irish Roman Catholic priests to be convicted of child sex abuse was released from prison today at the height of renewed controversy over the issue.

THE Rape Crisis Centre has said the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) should meet the victims of clerical abuse in Cloyne to discuss his decision not to seek prosecution against the alleged serial paedophile in the 2008 Cloyne report.

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JUSTICE is not being done for women in cases where low sentences are being handed down to convicted sex abusers, the head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has warned.

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.

Almost 800 women and children received accommodation and support from a domestic violence service — on a single day last year.

Rape crisis groups have welcomed proposed laws aimed at protecting victims from having to disclose therapy notes in trials, or from being cross-examined by their attacker.

Taxi drivers in Dublin are being asked to provide DNA samples as part of an investigation into an alleged rape.

ABUSE survivors’ groups have hailed the progress made by Catholic dioceses in opening up to allow audits investigate their child protection practices.

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

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has backed calls for the Government to find €1m to fund implementation of a 2002 national sexual abuse report, saying a “large-scale” review of the scale of the problem is “worthwhile”.