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The number of men contacting Galway Rape Crisis Centre has almost doubled in the past three years according to its 2009 annual report, which will be launched tomorrow (Friday).

Bullying has become a much talked about issue in recent years, and the vast majority of schools now have anti-bullying policies. However schools cannot be successful in their preventative work if they do not get support from home.

NUI Galway professor Keith Sullivan who is attached to the school of education has said that the problem of cyberbullying is escalating in our schools, and it is difficult to stop due to the anonymity of the perpetrator.

Safe Ireland’s new report ‘In just one day’, which took a 24 hour snapshot of domestic violence in the country, revealed that on November 4 2009, Mayo Women’s Support Service gave 21 women and 25 children a variety of vital supports including accommodation, advocacy, information, accompaniments, and help-line calls from Mayo Women’s Support Services.

A new sexual offences unit which is to established in the country has been welcomed by the ISPCC in Mayo.

You have to question the kind of world we live in when a teenage girl can see no light at the end of the tunnel - so much so that she sees no choice but to end her life.

The ninth annual Good Friday Walk will take place this afternoon along the streets of Kilkenny.

You have to question the kind of world we live in when a teenage girl can see no light at the end of the tunnel - so much so that she sees no choice but to end her life.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of a “catalogue of sexual abuse” against two young girls in the County Mayo pub where he worked over 10 years ago.

For the first time in Ireland, there is a project specifically dedicated to addressing the needs of children and young people living with domestic violence and family conflict.