Women's Aid

Television: Documentary about assault of Natasha O’Brien and her subsequent fight for justice makes for sober viewing

Elsewhere, Donald Trump’s latest foe proves to be the Pentagon’s intelligence arm

Men ‘need to lead as allies’ in tacking male violence as almost 47,000 women reported abuse of women and children last year

Plans stalled amid concerns that proposed inquiries could take six years to start

System has blind spot, leaving adults and children silenced and at risk, says Women’s Aid

Thanks to Clodagh Hawe’s remarkably brave sister Jacqueline Connolly, we now know that Alan Hawe meticulously planned the murders

Jim O’Callaghan says ‘appalling, exploitative’ behaviour totally unacceptable as cross-party group introduces Bill with fine of up to €50,000

Ask the Expert: No child should be physically harmed by their parent

All the messaging around Valentine’s Day is about love and harmony but there can be a distressingly darker side to relationships

Violence is a devastatingly routine part of life for a major segment of the population

Garda Commissioner says number of domestic violence incidents tends to increase during periods when families are together and there is ‘no escape for the victim’

Fear that children will be taken into care cited as a key reason for not telling maternity hospitals about abuse

‘I stood up for myself and I was believed,’ says Kathleen Correia, who was raped and coercively controlled by her then husband, Sergio Correia

The National Gallery offers a safe space for survivors of domestic violence to observe and create art as a way to deal with their trauma

What is clear is that the current environment is causing serious harm, in particular for women

Report cites instances of strangulation and verbal degradation as common examples of aggression toward women depicted in pornography

Mary Ward killing highlights issue of femicide in the North

Defence Forces says any conviction of serving member ‘may have implications for retention’ in the organisation

Tell Me About It: The relationship has ended over two years ago and he refuses to leave the house. He has taken over the main bedroom and it has become his den

Taoiseach says domestic abuse has become ‘absolute priority’ since Minister for Justice Helen McEntee addressed issue

Women’s Aid received 40,048 disclosures of domestic abuse in 2023, highest ever recorded in charity’s 50-year history

Advances in technology mean stalking has become much more sophisticated than ‘just someone hiding in the bushes outside your door’

Ask Roe: I feel I can’t do anything right for him, he takes offence at everything I say

Man is refusing to allow mother retrieve mementoes of their deceased child from his house, court told

Ireland one of first EU countries to introduce law which requires employers to offer paid leave to staff affected by domestic violence, says Minister

Ireland has become one of the first countries in the EU to introduce paid domestic violence leave

Women’s Aid survey highlights severe impact that relationship abuse can have on young women’s mental wellbeing

Charity pushes back over ‘unreasonable’ recommendation in audit by Tusla, which gave it €870,000 last year

Ireland one of first countries in Europe to introduce scheme, Roderic O’Gorman said

Like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park learned to open door handles, the tools we came up with to keep abuse out of relationships has been weaponised by perpetrators to get in

Women’s Aid seminar hears from Garda Commissioner how new command control system permits greater supervision of alerts and attention to people seeking assistance

Charity’s annual impact report documents 16 per cent increase in contacts, with organisation attributing some of rise to cost of living crisis

Record disclosures of abuse were reported to Women’s Aid over the last 12 months. The figures are just the tip of the iceberg

Body’s chief executive warns recommendations of landmark study must not be dispersed within Government

The lack of joined-up thinking leaves victims and survivors feeling abused by the system

Ask Roe: We have it at least three times a week, but he has a very high sex drive meaning he wants it daily

Ms Fonseca’s death takes the number of women who have died in violent circumstances in Ireland to 254 since 1996

To many of us, this year felt like a particularly dark and dangerous time to be a woman

‘Some women and their children will probably be spending Christmas in the cold,’ Women’s Aid says

Move will see new translation system that will open up services to women who do not speak English