The head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre Noeline Blackwell has hit out at the use of 'rape stereotypes' in rape trials.

Rape Crisis Midwest has said the number of calls it receives year-on-year has steadily increased.

RAPE — no matter if the victim is male or female — is a most heinous crime.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has warned that the Irish justice system is failing victims of abuse.

A rape survivor has urged people who were attacked to come forward instead of staying silent, but admitted that living through the memory of what happened during the hospital examination was “like being raped again”.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has called on the Government to overhaul the prison remission system.

Television documentaries exposing sexual abuse by clergy led to a high number of victims coming forward to report rape in Ireland, figures showed today.

Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre raises a critical question about attitudes to rape Ireland in her comment on the brutal murder of a 23-year-old Indian medical student, an appalling crime which has drawn worldwide condemnation. She asks: New Delhi and Dublin — how far apart are we?

AGENCIES providing support services for victims of abuse are dealing with a new wave of anguish caused by revelations thrown up by the latest clerical abuse probe.

SOME rape victims have to wait up to 11 hours to be examined because of a shortage of doctors trained to gather forensic evidence.

THE country’s struggling network of sexual assault units will collapse without extra funding, rape crisis centres have warned.

The rape crisis centre’s 24-hour helpline has received many calls from women complaining about the inappropriate behavior of landlords.

There has been widespread criticism of a suspended sentence handed down to a man found guilty of mulitple counts of rape.

INCREASING numbers of refugees and migrants who have suffered sexual violence in their home countries are providing fresh challenges for rape crisis services.

Ann Marie Gill was speaking at a conference on sexual violence to mark 40 years of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

"The damage that is done in sexually exploiting a child can be lifelong."

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) has said 11 of its clients revealed last year they had become pregnant as a result of rape.

THE two Saturdays during Christmas each saw eight victims of sexual assault treated at the specialist unit in the Rotunda Hospital — including one person who had to make a 10-hour return trip from Donegal.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has criticised the leniency of the sentence handed down to Tom Humphries.

THE Rape Crisis Network Ireland has criticised the Garda authorities for not including sexual violence as a policing priority for next year.