Children are no match for adults intent on harming them and they need to know that from an early age, a leading children’s charity has warned.

The vast majority of the 37% of children who are sexually abusing other children are not classic paedophiles but abuse due to neglect, emotional, physical or sexual abuse, and increasingly because of exposure to porn or an over-sexualised homeplace.

Irish singing legend Christy Moore hit the right notes last year with his music firm’s accumulated profits topping the €1.24m mark.

“The trouble is we have been trying to identify how best to combat sexual violence without modern data. It’s not even that it’s not up to date; it’s just antiquated.”

The Government has been forced to update its freedom of information website after a security breach.

Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald said the seven child protection reports were “horrific” and “shocking”, with child protection being ignored in some instances up until last year.

WHEN Lorraine Mulvey told the media last month how she had been abused by her father for 12 years, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre was inundated with phone calls.

The last ground breaking research was published in 2002 and did not include male victims or social media.

The DPP had argued the Court of Appeal should not have viewed a particular rape in isolation but rather as a "pattern of violent and abusive behaviour".

Paedophiles who attempt to groom children online or by text will be jailed for 14 years after just one message even if they never physically meet their victim under plans to tackle dangerous gaps in Ireland’s child protection laws.

THE support group One in Four has vowed to continue assisting victims of sexual abuse despite a 24% cut in funding.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions is investigating ways to inform victims of crime why their case won’t be prosecuted.