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Women's Aid Ireland

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Leading national organisation, working to prevent and address the impact of domestic violence and abuse. 24hr National Freephone Helpline 1800341900 www.womensaid.ie. RCN: 20012045

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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Husband hit wife, poured cooking oil on her and tried to set her on fire, court told www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Husband hit wife, poured cooking oil on her and tried to set her on fire, court told
Man undertakes before domestic violence court to stay away from family home for three years
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23/08/2026
Fundraiser to help pay for funeral costs of Brazilian woman murdered in Limerick
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Fundraiser to help pay for funeral costs of Brazilian woman murdered in Limerick
Jady Cristine Pereira Rosa (33), originally from  Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, found dead at apartment on Friday
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Walk marks 30 years since Fiona Pender's disappearance www.rte.ie/news/2026/08... via @rte
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Walk marks 30 years since Fiona Pender's disappearance
A memorial walk in Tullamore has marked 30 years since Fiona Pender disappeared, as gardaí continue investigating her suspected murder.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 22/08/2026
A 45-year-old man has been charged with the murder of an Irish woman in Melbourne, in Australia.
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Man charged with murder of Irish woman in Melbourne
A 45-year-old man has been charged with the murder of an Irish woman in Melbourne, in Australia.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 22/08/2026
Murder investigation launched following discovery of woman’s body at apartment in Limerick yesterday
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Murder probe launched after woman's body found
Gardaí have launched a murder investigation following the discovery of a women's body in Limerick city.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 21/08/2026
Gardaí are appealing for information on the murder of Fiona Pender as the 30th anniversary of her disappearance approaches
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Appeal for information on Fiona Pender murder 30 years on
Gardaí are appealing for information on the murder of Fiona Pender as the 30th anniversary of her disappearance approaches.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Garda charged with soliciting murder of woman, 3 children www.rte.ie/news/courts/... via @news.rte.ie
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Garda charged with soliciting murder of woman, 3 children
A garda in his 30s has appeared before Dublin District Court charged with soliciting a person to murder a woman and three children.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Man found guilty of murdering Gillian Curran in Waterford www.rte.ie/news/courts/... via @news.rte.ie
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Man found guilty of murdering Gillian Curran in Waterford
A 35-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering Waterford woman Gillian Curran 18 months ago.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Have you taken part in an Irish sexual offence trial as a victim-survivor? Researchers at the University of Limerick are seeking participants for the Lived Realities study to help inform future law and policy reform. Learn more: www.ul.ie/lived-realities 📧 realities@ul.ie Please share.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Lorcan Murphy’s use of ‘spy pen’ to record women in Dublin part of ‘path to future crime’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Lorcan Murphy’s use of ‘spy pen’ to record women in Dublin part of ‘path to future crime’
The Dubliner was jailed this month for murdering US nurse Mackenzie Michalski in Hungary
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cciexecutivesearch.bsky.social @cciexecutivesearch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
💡 Fundraising experience—or transferable skills in events, membership or community engagement? Women's Aid would love to hear from you. 💜 Community & Digital Fundraising Executive: buff.ly/cI24xQk @womensaidireland.bsky.social
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Gillian Curran’s pattern of injuries were more consistent with assault, murder trial hears www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Gillian Curran’s pattern of injuries were more consistent with assault, murder trial hears
Marcus O’Neill has denied murder of Curran at his home in Waterford last year
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Woman (50s) injured in knife attack during Mass in Co Waterford church www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Woman (50s) injured in knife attack during Mass in Co Waterford church
Emergency services are at the scene of the Holy Cross Church, Tramore
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Weeping woman gets barring order against ‘abusive, extremely controlling’ partner www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Weeping woman gets barring order against ‘abusive, extremely controlling’ partner
Illegal cannabis vapes being used by adult sons, parents tell domestic violence court in separate cases
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cciexecutivesearch.bsky.social @cciexecutivesearch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🤝 Join Women's Aid as a Community & Digital Fundraising Executive and help deliver fundraising campaigns that make a lasting difference for women and children across Ireland. 💻 Apply: buff.ly/cI24xQk @womensaidireland.bsky.social
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘He was incredibly entitled and manipulative’: The grim pattern of femicide in Ireland www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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‘He was incredibly entitled and manipulative’: The grim pattern of femicide in Ireland
‘People think, ‘If he hits me, I’ll leave’, Well, if he stabs you, you don’t get a chance,’ says brother of Valerie French, killed by her husband in 2019
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Garda acquitted of raping wife, guilty of child cruelty www.rte.ie/news/ireland... via @rte
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Garda acquitted of raping wife, guilty of child cruelty
A garda has been acquitted of raping his former wife but convicted of child cruelty against two of his children.
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 08/07/2026
Detectives are concerned the delay may have enabled him to leave the jurisdiction as the investigation is formally upgraded to a murder probe www.independent.ie/irish-news/g...
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Gardaí fear man suspected of killing Jamey Carney had 12‑hour head start
Detectives have launched a murder investigation into the death of the American mother following a post‑mortem
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 06/07/2026
Former swimming coach George Gibney has been convicted of sexually abusing four young swimmers and the attempted rape of one of the girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
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George Gibney found guilty of historic abuse of girls
Former swimming coach George Gibney has been convicted of sexually abusing young swimmers and the attempted rape of one of the girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Woman, 50s, found dead after assault in Co Laois www.rte.ie/news/leinste... via @news.rte.ie
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Woman, 50s, found dead after assault in Co Laois
A woman aged in her 50s has been found dead following a fatal assault in Co Laois.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Criminal investigators in the UK say they have uncovered a “truly international network” of organised drug-facilitated sexual assault in which victims are sedated before being raped and sexually assaulted. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Truly international’ network of drug-facilitated rape uncovered by UK crime agency
NCA says offenders arrange to sexually assault and film victims via online networks with crimes often taking place in trusting relationships
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Garda goes on trial for child cruelty and rape of wife www.rte.ie/news/2026/06... via @rte
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Garda goes on trial for child cruelty and rape of wife
A garda has gone on trial accused of child cruelty of his children and the rape of his wife.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dublin man who beat girlfriend and kicked her in face is jailed www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Dublin man who beat girlfriend and kicked her in face is jailed
Eyewitnesses to late-night assault in Kimmage heard Strickland Christopher (37) saying ‘I’m going to kill you’
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
RTÉ News: Domestic abuse disclosures to Women's Aid up 33% in 2025 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Domestic abuse disclosures to Women's Aid up 33% in 2025
Domestic abuse disclosures to Women's Aid increased by 33% in 2025, reaching the highest level recorded by the organisation.
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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of 81-year-old Noreen Daly in west Waterford. Finnegan Yowell appeared before the courts following the discovery of Ms Daly at her home in the Ardsallagh area on Monday. #VMNews
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Man, 30s, arrested in Waterford death investigation www.rte.ie/news/ireland... via @rte
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Man, 30s, arrested in Waterford death investigation
A man in his 30s has been arrested as part of the investigation into the death of a woman, whose body was discovered in Co Waterford yesterday.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Woman fears drug dealers could arrive at her house over partner’s potential narcotics debt www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Woman fears drug dealers could arrive at her house over partner’s potential narcotics debt
Dublin District Family Court hears appeals for interim protection orders
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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A personal trainer who owned a female-only gym has been jailed for more than two years for assaulting his former girlfriend. Speaking after the case, Moore encouraged others experiencing violence to come forward. #VMNews
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/06/2026
The 50-year-old man, who cannot be identified by order of the court, pleaded guilty to a single charge, relating to January 2019 to September 2020 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Man jailed for the 'tortuous' coercive control of wife
A 50-year old man has been jailed for a year, with another six months suspended, for the coercive control of his wife.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/06/2026
Stephen McCullagh has been handed a life sentence prison tariff of 31 years for the murder of Natalie McNally in December 2022.
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Natalie McNally's partner sentenced to life for murder
A man who killed his partner at her home in Lurgan in December 2022 has been sentenced to life in prison.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/06/2026
A man who killed his former partner at her home in Lurgan in December 2022 is due to be sentenced today.
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Natalie McNally's ex-partner to be sentenced for murder
A man who killed his former partner at her home in Lurgan in December 2022 is due to be sentenced.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Man jailed for life for murder of his mother in 2025 www.rte.ie/news/courts/... via @rte
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Man jailed for life for murder of his mother in 2025
A man has been jailed for life for the murder of his mother at the family home in Ballyconnell in Co Cavan in January 2025.
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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We give 1% of all of our earnings to @womensaidireland.bsky.social all year, every year. On bank holiday's, we increase this to 10%. It's a bank holiday imbibe.ie/pages/shop #speirgorm
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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We give up 4% of our revenue each year (over 30% of profits). 3% goes to good causes and 1% is shared with staff on top of salary/bonus. 1% of this money goes to @womensaidireland.bsky.social but on bank holidays we increase this to 10% on all web sales. From midnight tonight it’s a bank holiday!
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Terrible news from Clifden today. Our hearts are with Atijafari's family, friends and community. 'Wonderful' woman found dead near Galway IPAS centre www.rte.ie/news/connach... via @news.rte.ie
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'Wonderful' woman found dead near Galway IPAS centre
Tributes have been paid to the "wonderful" woman who was found dead near an IPAS accommodation centre in Co Galway this morning.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Proper inquiry could have stopped ex-garda Paul Moody’s abuse, head of Fiosrú says www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Proper inquiry could have stopped ex-garda Paul Moody’s abuse, head of Fiosrú says
Emily Logan accepted if agency investigated first allegations in 2017 Moody would not have been free to abuse second woman
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Man who stabbed partner at least 13 times and hit her with lamp jailed for 12½ years www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Man who stabbed partner at least 13 times and hit her with lamp jailed for 12½ years
Sean Egan (39) left Sharon Crean without medical help after attack at Laois home in December 2022
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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is so upsetting www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Richard Hogan: A mother begged me to tell the story of her teen son's porn addiction
It is beyond time we tackled the scourge of hardcore pornography online — and if the EU won't act, Ireland must go it alone
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 20/05/2026
Garda watchdog admits ‘delays’ in probe into ex-garda Paul Moody who went on to abuse another partner
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Garda watchdog admits ‘delays’ in probe into ex-garda Paul Moody who went on to abuse another partner
Fiosrú said it has carried out internal review into how it conducted the five-year investigation that was discontinued without Moody ever being interviewed
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“I am doing this for me and all women, that never again in your life you rape a woman,” the young woman said in her statement to the court. Man who raped woman he was in relationship with jailed for four years www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Man who raped woman he was in relationship with jailed for four years
Woman told man she was too sore for sex and told him ‘no’ several times but engineering student did not stop, court hears
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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has reported the busiest year in its 47-year history. Its latest annual report shows nearly 24,000 contacts to the National Helpline in 2025, alongside significant increases in therapy appointments and frontline support services. [1/2]
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Jim O'Callaghan: "Violent porn is distorting sexuality for teens" www.independent.ie/videos/irish...
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
‘She blames me for everything’: Barring order against man who claims he slapped woman ‘just once’ www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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‘She blames me for everything’: Barring order against man who claims he slapped woman ‘just once’
Woman in separate case claimed partner threatened ‘to strangle me with charger wire’
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sarah Benson, CEO of @womensaidireland.bsky.social said the figures reinforce how incredibly important it is that there is a robust, consistent Garda response. Domestic violence reports to gardaí rise by 10% this year so far, figures show www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Domestic violence reports to gardaí rise by 10% this year so far, figures show
Garda data released on Go Purple Day shows almost 18,000 reports in first four months of 2026
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Family ‘haunted’ by woman’s final moments after partner stabbed her 13 times and left www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Family ‘haunted’ by woman’s final moments after partner stabbed her 13 times and left
Sean Egan was found guilty of manslaughter by diminished responsibility over the killing of Sharon Crean (35)
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A man who carried out “disgusting, disturbing and obnoxious” attacks on two ex-girlfriends has been remanded in custody after breaking a suspended sentence. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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‘Pick a finger or toe’: Man back in custody after breaking suspended sentence for attacks on ex-partners
Ben Curry (25) beat and threatened a former partner at knifepoint and subjected another ex-girlfriend to a 40-minute beating in public
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Wicklow man who recorded videos of himself sexually assaulting a sleeping woman jailed jrnl.ie/7036974
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Wicklow man who recorded videos of himself sexually assaulting a sleeping woman jailed
Philip Dignam (41) recorded eight videos depicting various acts of sexual assault on the woman while she was asleep or unconscious.
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Dr Mary McGill @mary-mcgill.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Good to see the EU moving to ban undressing apps. By their very existence, these apps undermine gender equality. The abuse of their functionality was entirely predictable and should never have been tolerated. @irishtimes.com @womensaidireland.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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‘A pivotal moment’: European ban on AI nudification apps is welcomed
Niamh Smyth, the Minister of State for AI, said the provisional agreement ‘marks a pivotal moment in the responsible regulation of artificial intelligence’
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Mother in refuge with children gets order protecting them from their father www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Mother in refuge with children gets order protecting them from their father
Another woman says baby was returned with injuries four times after father had access
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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It's a Bank Holiday so we'll do as we always do at such times and increase the usual 1% of all our sales we donate to @womensaidireland.bsky.social to 10% on all web sales from midnight tonight until midnight Monday. Hope everyone enjoys a nice break! imbibe.ie/pages/shop #speirgorm
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