2025 was the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s busiest year on record

The DRCC delivered 7,270 therapy appointments last year

The DRCC delivered over 7,000 therapy appointments in 2025. This is in comparison to 5,800 in the previous year. They also carried out over 500 visits to various Sexual Assault Treatment Units across Dublin, and acted as accompaniments in court settings 350 times.

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan will release the DRCC's official report today. Speaking yesterday, he said that these figures are "stark" and confirmed that the DRCC recorded their largest amount of contacts in 2025.

"DRCC’s Annual Report for 2025 highlights the scale of the challenge we continue to face to combat sexual violence, as well as the extraordinary work done by DRCC to support survivors and victims”

"The report also points to a society more open to talking about sexual violence and survivors and victims more confident in coming forward seeking support”, he added.

Chief of the DRCC, Rachel Morrogh, said that 2025 was one of the most demanding years that the organisation has ever seen.

"The National Rape Crisis Helpline fielded an extraordinary 23,955 contacts – up over 5% from 2024 and a 29% increase from 2023."

"This signals a clear and continuing upward trend in people seeking support. Of those callers who told us whether they were a first-time or repeat caller, six in ten had called us before, and four in ten were first-time callers. This tells us that people need the ongoing telephone counselling support the National Helpline offers and that we are a constant and reliable support for callers from across the country", she added.

"Behind each of these figures is a person facing some of the most intimidating, devastating moments of their lives, and our accompaniment team’s presence ensured none of them had to navigate medical or justice processes alone."

"Above all, I want to acknowledge the courage of every person who reached out to us in 2025, while recognising that there are many more survivors who are still carrying the trauma of sexual violence alone."

Support is always available on the 24-hour National Rape Crisis Helpline on 1800 77 8888.