Wednesday 28 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

595 cases in 2025, shaded by cases per 100,000 residents (Census 2022). Select a county for its breakdown. 12 cases have no county and are not on the map.

Donegal: 23 cases, 14.0 per 100,000Waterford: 12 cases, 9.5 per 100,000Dublin: 264 cases, 18.4 per 100,000Kilkenny: 2 cases, 1.9 per 100,000Carlow: 5 cases, 8.1 per 100,000Limerick: 30 cases, 14.5 per 100,000Louth: 26 cases, 18.7 per 100,000Tipperary: 13 cases, 7.8 per 100,000Roscommon: 4 cases, 5.8 per 100,000Meath: 11 cases, 5.0 per 100,000Wicklow: 10 cases, 6.5 per 100,000Cavan: 11 cases, 13.6 per 100,000Cork: 42 cases, 7.3 per 100,000Clare: 17 cases, 13.5 per 100,000Galway: 16 cases, 5.8 per 100,000Mayo: 9 cases, 6.6 per 100,000Sligo: 5 cases, 7.2 per 100,000Leitrim: 0 cases, 0.0 per 100,000Offaly: 5 cases, 6.1 per 100,000Laois: 13 cases, 14.2 per 100,000Kildare: 13 cases, 5.3 per 100,000Kerry: 21 cases, 13.8 per 100,000Monaghan: 5 cases, 7.7 per 100,000Wexford: 13 cases, 8.0 per 100,000Longford: 2 cases, 4.3 per 100,000Westmeath: 11 cases, 11.5 per 100,000
noneup to 3.7up to 7.5up to 11.2up to 15.0up to 18.7
per 100,000 residents. Boundaries: Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0, simplified.

Dublin

264 cases in 2025 · 18.4 per 100,000 · 1,435,449 residents

  • Irish 61
  • Non-Irish 36
  • Both in one case 14
  • Not known 153

By type of offence

  • Violence71
  • Other59
  • Drugs28
  • Burglary, robbery and damage25
  • Deaths and disappearances21
  • Driving21
  • Fraud and money laundering14
  • Sexual and domestic abuse13
  • Murder and manslaughter10
  • Not given2

Latest cases

Every case in Dublin

Every county

CountyCasesPer 100kSuspect origin
Dublin26418.4
Cork427.3
Limerick3014.5
Louth2618.7
Donegal2314.0
Kerry2113.8
Clare1713.5
Galway165.8
Kildare135.3
Laois1314.2
Tipperary137.8
Wexford138.0
Waterford129.5
Cavan1113.6
Meath115.0
Westmeath1111.5
Wicklow106.5
Mayo96.6
Carlow58.1
Monaghan57.7
Offaly56.1
Sligo57.2
Roscommon45.8
Kilkenny21.9
Longford24.3
Leitrim00.0

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.