Safe Ireland Explained

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. 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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Director's Report and Financial Statements . Safe Ireland . 7 November 2023.
  2. Web site: Information for Male Victims . Safe Ireland . 7 November 2023.
  3. Web site: Funding History of Safe Ireland . Safe Ireland . 7 November 2023.
  4. Web site: Membership of Safe Ireland . Safe Ireland . 7 November 2023.
  5. News: This Hozier performance in Áras an Uachtarain gave us chills . 16 February 2021 . . 11 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201028175618/https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/celebrity/arid-30724805.html. 28 October 2020. dead.