Having been given unprecedented access, staff describe their daily struggle to keep women and children safe, because a shortage in refuge places means they are forced to live with their abusers.
RTÉ Investigates – Domestic Abuse, A Year Of Crisis, examines the impact of the increasing levels of domestic abuse in Ireland over the past year. Survivors of domestic abuse, many speaking publicly for the very first time, describe the devastating consequences of domestic abuse.
From coercive control, repeated patterns of domestic violence, femicide and the traumatising justice system, the documentary reveals the true domestic abuse crisis in Ireland.