Domestic violence 'falls between' the cracks at national level, charities warn

22 Jun 2021

The annual report from Women’s Aid showed more than 30,000 disclosures were made in 2020, with an increase of 43% in terms of contacts made with its support services compared to that in 2019.

Professor Louise Crowley, a Senior Lecturer in Family Law at University College Cork and the author of the leading Irish family law text, Family Law, said a Junior Minister - at the very least - should now be appointed to take direct responsibility for domestic and sexual violence, which she said was “a national crisis”.

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