Clare’s Fine Gael Senator says Garda training on the new Domestic Violence Act is well underway.
The new laws surrounding these offences came into effect at the beginning of this month, making coercive control a new offence under the act.
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This is psychological abuse in an intimate relationship that causes fear of violence, or serious alarm or distress.
Ennistymon Senator Martin Conway, who’s his party’s Justice Spokesperson in the Seanad, says Gardaí are being well trained to deal with these issues:
