The Justice Minister is to bring proposals to Cabinet next week which would make the sharing of sexual images without consent a criminal offence.
Helen McEntee will bring amendments to a bill drafted by Labour’s Brendan Howlin before senior ministers next Tuesday.
In a series of tweets, Minister McEntee says she shares the ‘anger and upset’ of a leak of tens of thousands of intimate images of Irish women in recent days.
Meanwhile, Clare Haven Services is urging women and girls subjected to image-based abuse not to suffer in silence.
It’s Manager of Services, Siobhan O’Connor says victims are not to blame for what she’s described as a cruel act of violence on them and she says there is help out there for anyone struggling to cope.
