Lorraine Mulvey, who spoke out yesterday to help rape victims, said she is now looking forward to a new life with her fiancé.

Record damages of €4m awarded by the High Court to a 55-year-old woman who was repeatedly raped and abused as a teenager may suggest juries are becoming more aware of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse, according to the Rape Crisis Network.

ANGRY exchanges punctuated the contribution of former Education Minister Michael Woods in the Dáil discussion of the Ryan Report, after he defended his role in securing the indemnity deal for religious orders.

WOMEN suffering domestic violence are being forced to wait more than two months to get a court hearing to try and get an order barring an abusive partner from the home.

ABUSE victim support services will join forces this week to respond to the massive outpouring expected from the publication of the Dublin Archdiocese report.

A man was arrested today in connection with the alleged rape of a young woman at the Oxegen music festival.

SEXUAL assaults, shootings and theft against the person cases have jumped in the third quarter of this year, compared to the same period in 2002, new statistics released yesterday show.

A new proposal may see someone prosecuted under a less serious charge than rape if they mistakenly but unreasonably believed they had the consent of a person with whom they had sex.

Dublin Gaelic football star Diarmuid Connolly has unreservedly apology to a man who suffered a fractured eye socket during an unprovoked attack in a pub.

A Dublin man who raped his nephew’s wife while she was sleeping beside her husband and toddler has been sentenced to eight years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended.

If Government promises were enough to resolve our problems, we would probably have no problems, because the current Government has never been short on promises.

Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly has been ordered to complete an anger-management course before he is sentenced for an unprovoked attack on a man in a pub.

A six-month sentence given to a Roscommon man convicted of sexually abusing his five-year-old daughter is "too lenient", it has been claimed.

A FRIEND of mine once said to me “surely it’s for the makers of pornography to prove it’s harmless than for others to prove how harmful it is”.

ALMOST 300 serious crimes were committed every day last year — 55 more daily than in 2001.