Christmas time can trigger a rise in the frequency and severity of abuse against women and children.

National helpline agencies have joined forces to break the silence on sexual violence in relationships.

The amount of porn young teenagers are accessing is causing so much damage to their psychological growth it must be seen as a major public health crisis.

WE’RE notorious for alcoholism, but we Irish are also becoming addicted to sex, fuelled primarily by online porn, which is easily accessed by smartphones.

A judge has ordered Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly to spend 80 hours teaching GAA to children following an unprovoked attack on a man in a pub.

Just over half of families of homicide victims and victims of rape and sexual assault say they were not informed by gardaí of support services, according to a new survey.

In the early ’90s, her lone voice exposed a dark period in history, writes Conall Ó Fátharta

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said it is hopeful judges and legal professionals will soon take part in education programmes to help them better understand the consequences of sexual crimes.

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

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said that giving rape complainants access to their own legal representation needs to be part of a wider overhaul of the system.

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

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.

There were no winners but losers aplenty in the Belfast rape trial, as the repercussions for all concerned will reverberate for a long time to come.

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre believes legal assistance should be provided to complainants in rape trials where the main issue is credibility, says spokesperson Noeline Blackwell.

The Pat Kenny Show will cover a number of contentious issues on the programme tonight.

With consent the major issue in the Belfast rape trial, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has underlined its concern about the way in which trials for sexual violence are conducted.

The Law Reform Commission suggests the emphasis for consent should be shifted onto the man - where he would be expected to actively seek consent rather than the woman be required to give it, writes Mary Morrissy

Organisations working in the areas of hate crime and domestic violence have welcomed Garda figures which show a sharp rise in such crimes being recorded.

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.

Child sex dolls may be an indicator of a desire to rape children, says the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) as gardaí made their first-ever discovery of a number of the dolls during a targeted search of 31 premises for child pornography this week.