While serious crime generally decreased in Ireland last year, sexual assault, murder, and threats to kill rose. Drug offences saw an overall decline, driven by a decrease in personal possession cases, but drug importation surged. Burglaries increased slightly, but remain near historic lows.
Although burglary rate had increased for period in 2024, trends slowed and levels remain around all-time lows
Recorded drug crime declined overall, driven by a drop in the number of people being caught with drugs for personal use, but the number of cases of drugs being imported has surged by 60 per cent. ‘You need to go’: Mary Lou McDonald tells Verona Murphy the Opposition has lost confidence in her as Ceann Comhairle‘Our daughter is almost 40 and moving out soon, but she has told her son that he can stay with us’The number of sexual crimes reported to the Garda increased by 8 per cent last year to 3,709 crimes, including a 3 per cent increase in rapes to 964 cases.
The latest crime data has been published by the Central Statistics Office, based on raw crime data supplied by the Garda. Arson attacks were up by 14 per cent to 1,752 cases, while public order crimes increased by 5 per cent to 30,388 crimes.
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