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<p>Wayne Bradley outside Tesco in Celbridge, Co Kildare, in 2012. Picture: Collins Courts</p>

Potential for violence as gangland figures join anti-migrant protests

Gangland criminal Wayne Bradley from Finglas, who has multiple convictions, has attended local anti-migrant rallies in Dublin in recent weeks

Wed, 01 Feb, 2023

<p>A leading Ukrainian MP has said a “huge thank you” for the welcome shown to her fellow citizens now living in Ireland. Picture: Sergei Grits/AP</p>

Ukrainian MP thanks Ireland for refugees' 'incredible welcome'

Party leader 'absolutely amazed' by support from Irish public

Thu, 02 Jun, 2022

A Question of Taste: Hudson Taylor

Hudson Taylor are brothers Harry and Alfie Hudson Taylor from Dublin. Upcoming gigs include the Olympia in their native city on March 28, and Cork Opera House on Thursday, March 29.

Thu, 08 Mar, 2018

<p>Simon Coveney has said a CCP will be appointed to the Defence Forces in order to help report inappropriate workplace behaviour. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire</p>

Confidential contact for Defence Forces members alleging bullying and sexual harassment

The Confidential Contact Person will be independent of the Defence Forces and will update Minister for Defence Simon Coveney on the types of cases they are seeing

Wed, 06 Oct, 2021

Scene + Heard: What's going on around the country

MUSIC NEWS: Angus Young seems to have had a moment of revelation about an issue many of us had wondered about for years. 

Fri, 05 Aug, 2016

<p>Mary Crilly, CEO of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork was awarded the freedom of the city. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan /OSM PHOTO</p>

Mary Crilly accepts Cork's Freedom of the City for the survivors and their supporters

Ms Crilly revealed that she is working on a three-year exit plan to step down as Cork Sexual Violence Centre CEO by the time she is 70.

Thu, 09 Jun, 2022

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre disappointed at delay in specifying 'revenge porn' as offence as judge grants protection order to victim

A judge has granted court protection to a woman whose ex-partner is threatening to post intimate videos and photos of her on Facebook.

Mon, 20 Jan, 2020

<p>In July 2019, Sarah Grace (pictured) was brutally attacked by Ibrahim Elghynaoui while she slept in her own apartment. She is to publish a book in March detailing her journey from reporting the assault to seeing Elghynaoui jailed for 10 years.</p>

When a stranger sexually assaulted Sarah Grace, it changed her life forever

Sarah Grace is adamant that the 2019 attack will not destroy her and that her experience of the criminal justice system will help other survivors of sexual attacks in the future

Sat, 01 Jan, 2022

Report recommends anonymity of victims and defendants in sexual crimes

Suspects charged with sexual crimes should be granted anonymity unless and until they are convicted, according to a new report. It is one of the recommendations from a review of protections given to vulnerable witnesses in such cases.

Thu, 06 Aug, 2020

<p>The IHREC said the Government should implement a multi-agency domestic homicide review.</p>

Call for action as violence against women at 'crisis levels'

Last year saw highest number of violent deaths since 2007 as 11 women killed

Fri, 20 Jan, 2023

Show is over for the real Miss Ireland

After 25 years of fun and games, the alternative pageant finishes on Sunday. Caomhán Keane reflects on a truly fabulous event

Fri, 16 Mar, 2012

<p>In 2015, adults interviewed as part of a study called How Adults Tell recounted their experiences of disclosure to child protections services. Ultimately, that study argued that the system itself acts as a barrier to adults coming forward. One interviewee summed this up, saying, “you finally get the courage up to tell somebody… and you become a victim again… you become a victim of the system”.</p>

Removing barriers to assist disclosure of child sexual abuse

We need to develop societies and structures that encourage victims to come forward, facilitate them doing so, and support them throughout, writes Joseph Mooney

Fri, 08 Oct, 2021

<p>Nikita Hand, who is also known as Nikita Ni Láimhín, speaking to the media outside the High Court in Dublin.</p>

Suzanne Harrington: Turns out that there are no valid reasons for a man to assault you

Thanks to the grit and tenacity of an ordinary Dublin hairdresser, the dial has moved a fraction

Mon, 02 Dec, 2024

Number of ‘distressing’ Scouts abuse cases to rise

The number of “deeply distressing” cases of sexual abuse uncovered in Scouting Ireland will increase, warns an independent expert.

Thu, 22 Nov, 2018

Comment: Call for protests on International Women’s Day

This week Rosa, the socialist feminist movement, an organisation I have been a part of long before I was a city councillor, called a rally in Cork after disgraceful details of a Central Criminal Court case held in Cork emerged.

Sat, 17 Nov, 2018

Taoiseach urges Ireland to trust women in abortion reform bid

The Taoiseach has urged Ireland to show some compassion as he launched a bid to overturn some of the strictest abortion rules in Europe.

Sat, 21 Apr, 2018

<p>Laura Cahillane of the School of Law at UL has said Article 41.2 did not set out to confine women to their homes — but rather to allow them to stay home to raise families. The problem is, no policy to provide for this financially was put in place, so women never developed that economic right. Picture: Oisin McHugh</p>

Alison O'Connor: Restrictions? Let's begin by lifting one that has solely targeted women

Article 42.1 does not confine women to their homes, but it has certainly contributed to denying our agency and autonomy

Fri, 23 Apr, 2021

<p>The garda, who is based in the south of the country, has been arrested and questioned in relation to the allegations.</p>

Garda arrested after daughters allege 'horrific' sexual abuse

Specialist officers are compiling an investigation file on a serving garda after receiving multiple allegations of sexual abuse from his daughters.

Mon, 04 Oct, 2021

<p>'He had cable ties, duct tape, the knife — I was not meant to survive that,' Ruth Maxwell says of her horror attack in 2016. Picture: Bob Morrison</p>

Her attacker is serving 34½ years in jail, but Ruth Maxwell had to fight for support. Why?

It is 'fantastic' that Slawomir Gierlowski will spend decades in jail, but Ruth Maxwell says she and other survivors find themselves fighting all the time for everything in a dysfunctional system

Mon, 17 Oct, 2022

<p>Dr Monica O’Connor said that, rather than just seeking to reduce gender-based violence, society should seek to 'eliminate'. File photo</p>

Ireland has a long way to go to ending the 'cultural impunity' of gender-based violence

Dr Monica O'Connor told the Citizens' Assembly that while there have been major strides to ending the “legal impunity” of violence against women, wider societal change is taking much longer

Sat, 13 Mar, 2021