{"id":159218,"date":"2025-11-25T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159218\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:07:08","slug":"new-online-womens-aid-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159218\/","title":{"rendered":"New online Women\u2019s Aid Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new platform for family and friends of domestic abuse survivors is being hailed as \u2018lifesaving\u2019 and \u2018monumental\u2019.<br \/>Women\u2019s Aid launched the online programme this afternoon, with President Catherine Connolly in attendance.<br \/>It aims to help people understand how to support someone who they know is being subjected to domestic abuse and coercive control.<br \/>The initiative comes against the backdrop of rising cases of domestic abuse, with more than 65 thousand calls made to Gardai last year.<br \/>Head of the National Freephone Helpline Services, Linda Smith says the supports will save lives\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/domestic.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/domestic.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new platform for family and friends of domestic abuse survivors is being hailed as \u2018lifesaving\u2019 and \u2018monumental\u2019.Women\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-159218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}