Safe Ireland

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Safe Ireland (also styled as safeireland) is an Irish organisation dedicated to preventing and combatting domestic violence and abuse and running a Women's Refuge (MWSS).[1]

By its own report,[2] the vast majority of its member services work specifically with female and underage victims, not with adult male victims.

Its self-reported 2021 and 2022 funding were 1,892,546 EUR and 1,689,303 EUR, respectively.[1] Its main funding source is the governmental Child and Family Agency.[3]

As of November 2023, it reports having 37 member organisations spread out over Ireland.[4]

In 2016, it supported[5] an UN Women HeForShe event at which Hozier performed his song Cherry Wine.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Director's Report and Financial Statements". Safe Ireland. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Information for Male Victims". Safe Ireland. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Funding History of Safe Ireland". Safe Ireland. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Membership of Safe Ireland". Safe Ireland. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  5. ^ "This Hozier performance in Áras an Uachtarain gave us chills". Irish Examiner. 11 March 2016. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2021.

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