CSO: City centre crime less than circulating areas

PUBLIC order problems in Dublin and Cork are being driven by sharp rises in incidents outside the city centres, new figures indicate.

Garda sources said this could reflect specific Garda public order operations in the city centres — targeting pubs, nightclubs and fast food outlets — where the incidents occur.

Figures provided to the Irish Examiner by the Central Statistics Office for 2003 to 2007 show that in the six Garda divisions in Dublin: