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Mayo Women’s Support Services is the lead agency in the county offering a free confidential service and a range of supports to all women and children whose lives have been affected by domestic violence.

On December 10, the final day of the 16 Days of Action opposing violence against women, the Primary Health Care trainees at the Mayo Travellers’ Support Group presented a hand-made collection of 146 flowers at the Linenhall in honour of those women who lost their lives as a result of domestic violence.

Mayo Women’s Support Services is the lead agency in the county offering a free confidential service and a range of supports to all women and children whose lives have been affected by domestic violence.

A Westmeath man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin charged with sexually assaulting his two daughters and younger brother-in-law over an eight year period.

A Westmeath man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin charged with sexually assaulting his two daughters and younger brother-in-law over an eight year period.

If crimes are ever scaled on the amount of horror and anger they provoke, then the sexual assault of children is one that is often near the top. There are few offences that cause this sort of outrage in a community, that go to the heart of every family, that cause such division. It is the fear of such an allegation that has sadly led to a reluctance by many people to become involved in activities that bring them into contact with children in intimate situations, for fear that such an allegation may be made in these increasingly litigious times.

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has been remanded in custody pending sentence for raping a young French woman at knife point in 2007.

Plans by the HSE to build a permanent sexual assault treatment unit (SATU) in Merlin Park have been put on the long finger due to budgetary constraints. A temporary facility opened last month at Parkmore.

A local politician is calling on the Gardai to investigate allegations that women and children are being solicited for prostitution and trafficking outside hostels/direct provision accommodation centres for asylum seekers in Galway.

The number of women seeking accommodation from Waterside House, the city based refuge for women experiencing domestic violence, rose by 44 per cent in the first six months of this year.