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The Mayo Rape Crisis centre is asking you to consider taking part in the Women’s Mini Marathon on Monday June 1 in order to raise funds to further develop its services to women in Mayo. Contact Nicci if you would like to register at 094 902 5657 or e-mail [email protected]

The delay in opening a sexual assault treatment unit in the city has been described as “unacceptable” by a city councillor.

There will be a delay in the opening of a sexual assault treatment unit in Galway, which will also serve Mayo, a meeting of the Regional Health Forum West heard this week.

The staff at the Galway Rape Crisis Centre were forced to lodge a complaint with gardai after a Connemara man made 17 nuisance calls and threatened to break every window and then burn the centre down, the Galway District Court heard last week.

A sexual assault treatment unit will open in the city within the next few weeks. The facility will initially be based in a temporary premises which is understood to be on the west side of the city close to University Hospital Galway. It will eventually be located in a permanent premises to be built on the Merlin Park Hospital campus.

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.

A psychopathic rapist who was born in Mayo and who escaped from a life sentence and raped again six months later has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court.

An Athlone man accused of rape was bailed from the District Court this week (July 1) after being served with a Book of Evidence, and had his case returned for a date in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.