Tuesday 27 October 2026Compiled from published reports. Every claim links to its source.

Ireland Crime

Every case followed from the first report to the sentence, or to where the reporting stopped.

Cases by county

950 cases, shaded by cases per 100,000 residents (Census 2022). Select a county for its breakdown. 26 cases have no county and are not on the map.

Donegal: 24 cases, 14.6 per 100,000Waterford: 16 cases, 12.7 per 100,000Dublin: 432 cases, 30.1 per 100,000Kilkenny: 4 cases, 3.9 per 100,000Carlow: 11 cases, 17.9 per 100,000Limerick: 49 cases, 23.6 per 100,000Louth: 37 cases, 26.7 per 100,000Tipperary: 19 cases, 11.4 per 100,000Roscommon: 6 cases, 8.6 per 100,000Meath: 29 cases, 13.2 per 100,000Wicklow: 14 cases, 9.1 per 100,000Cavan: 14 cases, 17.3 per 100,000Cork: 69 cases, 12.0 per 100,000Clare: 23 cases, 18.3 per 100,000Galway: 30 cases, 11.0 per 100,000Mayo: 8 cases, 5.9 per 100,000Sligo: 7 cases, 10.1 per 100,000Leitrim: 2 cases, 5.8 per 100,000Offaly: 20 cases, 24.2 per 100,000Laois: 15 cases, 16.4 per 100,000Kildare: 27 cases, 11.0 per 100,000Kerry: 20 cases, 13.1 per 100,000Monaghan: 6 cases, 9.3 per 100,000Wexford: 16 cases, 9.8 per 100,000Longford: 2 cases, 4.3 per 100,000Westmeath: 24 cases, 25.1 per 100,000
noneup to 6.0up to 12.0up to 18.1up to 24.1up to 30.1
per 100,000 residents. Boundaries: Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0, simplified.

Dublin

432 cases · 30.1 per 100,000 · 1,435,449 residents

  • Irish 142
  • Non-Irish 54
  • Both in one case 20
  • Not known 216

By type of offence

  • Violence98
  • Other88
  • Drugs45
  • Murder and manslaughter44
  • Sexual and domestic abuse41
  • Burglary, robbery and damage39
  • Driving31
  • Deaths and disappearances27
  • Fraud and money laundering17
  • Not given2

Latest cases

Every case in Dublin

Every county

CountyCasesPer 100kSuspect origin
Dublin43230.1
Cork6912.0
Limerick4923.6
Louth3726.7
Galway3011.0
Meath2913.2
Kildare2711.0
Donegal2414.6
Westmeath2425.1
Clare2318.3
Kerry2013.1
Offaly2024.2
Tipperary1911.4
Waterford1612.7
Wexford169.8
Laois1516.4
Cavan1417.3
Wicklow149.1
Carlow1117.9
Mayo85.9
Sligo710.1
Monaghan69.3
Roscommon68.6
Kilkenny43.9
Leitrim25.8
Longford24.3

Rates count cases reported in the news, not recorded crime, and small counties swing a lot on one or two cases. Dublin's courts also hear cases from elsewhere, but each case is placed in the county where the incident happened.