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COPE Galway will receive €1.16 million towards a new domestic violence refuge for Galway city.

Two local groups have joined forces to organise a city event which will highlight the prevalence and impact of domestic violence on women and children. The issue affects one in five women in Ireland.

A young man has been convicted and fined for assaulting the man he believed had raped his best friend.

Galway secondary schools and youth organisations will join thousands of young people from across Ireland in taking a stand against homophobic bullying.

A man was sent forward this week, at Ballina District Court, to the current sitting of the Central Criminal Court.

Violence against women will be the focus of a major conference to be held by Amnesty International Ireland in NUI Galway next week.

Almost half of the men who took part in a recent national survey say they are unaware of the impact of domestic violence on women.

Mayo Women’s Support Services has presented shocking statistics which show that domestic violence across Ireland and in Mayo is a daily threat for women of all ages and at all life stages.

On February 14 at 1.30pm in Market Square, Castlebar, the Mayo Rape Crisis Centre will gather with friends, families, supporters, survivors, anyone who loves women and girls, and join with activists around the world for One Billion Rising, the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.

A domestic violence response group, set up to tackle the problem in Connemara, is urging people to join with activists around the world in the One Billion Rising, the largest day of action planned to highlight the need to end violence against women and girls.