Hospital experts will be able to take and retain forensic evidence of rape with the consent of a victim who is not yet ready or willing to report the attack to gardaí.

The biggest rape crisis centre in the country had more than 100 victims of past rape and childhood sexual abuse on a waiting list to receive therapy at the end of 2014.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused of staying "silent" on the IBRC deals controversy, Gardaí have launched a murder investigation after a 25-year-old man died in west Dublin, a 58-year-old Irish nun visiting Rome was trapped in an elevator for three days and John Delaney is urged to take a voluntary 50% pay cut. Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

A document from Tusla, outlining how social workers should respond to allegations of child abuse and neglect, opens the way for an alleged abuser to cross-examine his or her victim.

All patrol cars are to carry crime prevention kits, including digital cameras, to help gardaí gather evidence in domestic violence callouts.

Almost 800 women and children received accommodation and support from a domestic violence service — on a single day last year.

It’s not just A-listers that suddenly find intimate images of themselves popping up online. It is happening in cities, towns and villages around Ireland and so an Irish barrister has set up The Hit Team says Áilín Quinlan

There has been a near 50% drop in the number of murders over the last 12 months, but both sexual offences and assaults have risen sharply over the same period.

Ellen O’Malley Dunlop asks what Constance Markievicz or Dr Kathleen Lynn would make of the position of women in the republic they helped win, and says we’ve lots of work to do yet

The newly appointed head of the country’s largest rape crisis service provider is warning that vital protections for victims are being delayed while government formation talks drag on. 

The head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre is backing the use of a novel product that will be available in pubs soon.

President Michael D Higgins has criticised the fact that in some countries women have no rights to control their own fertility.

A major hunt is under way for three men after a woman was dragged away from her bike, pulled into a park, and raped.

A Government minister has strongly suggested Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald should take over as leader from Enda Kenny, saying she “demonstrates all of the qualities a taoiseach would need”.

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”.

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.

More adults in midlife are seeking help for childhood sexual abuse, and some have never been able to talk about it before.