One in four women in Ireland suffered domestic abuse in 2022, a new chilling report shows.
Women's Aid experienced the highest ever number of domestic abuse contacts received by the organisation in its almost 50 year history. In their Annual Impact Report for 2022, the charity reveals at least one in four women in Ireland are subjected to some form of abuse from a current or former partner.
Abuse included coercive control, emotional abuse, physical violence, sexual abuse, and economic control. One woman died violently every month in 2022 and already five women lost their lives this year, according to the organisation’s Femicide Watch.
