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Community Connect, an organisation that offers practical support to pregnant women and babies across Ireland, is responding to those needs by hosting a ‘Drive & Drop’ donation event at Our Lady Queen of Peace church car park in Coosan, Athlone, from 1-3pm on Saturday, March 26.

Galway socialist-feminist organisation ROSA will hold a rally in Eyre Square on Tuesday March 8 from 6.30pm to mark International Women's Day.

The Athlone (Midland) Rape Crisis Centre service is delighted to announce that they have established a permanent home for the counselling and support of victims of sexual violence in Athlone.

Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has called for increased funding to be made available for women’s refuges across the country.

The recent murder of Ashling Murphy has catapulted the issue of femicide and male violence against women to the forefront of the political and social spectrum.

Across the country, including County Mayo, at least 2,018 women and 550 children received support from a domestic violence service each month from September to December 2020, according to a new report called 'Tracking the Shadow Pandemic – Lockdown 2'.

Mayo Women’s Support Services (MWSS) has called for 'clarity from the Government on the level of funding that will be provided to the hard-pressed sector, as it continues to deal with increasing levels of domestic abuse and coercive control'.

The 'new normal' of combined work-home living, could mean 'ongoing prisons for women and children living with abusers', according to Mayo Women’s Support Services.