evidence: The organisation, which provides support and information to women experiencing domestic violence, said "thousands of women are being subjected to high levels of emotional, physical, sexual and economic abuse". [...] The report says the pandemic "made the crisis level of domestic violence in Ireland more visible", with Women’s Aid support workers last year hearing more than 30,000 disclosures of domestic violence, including coercive control. [...] "One in four women in Ireland are targeted during their lifetime by current or former partners, a shocking one in five will have been abused by the time they are just 25 years old – many for the first time as teenagers in their earliest intimate relationships," she said.