70% of property crimes going unsolved in Ireland

Seven out of 10 of the most serious crimes against property are going unsolved with non-detection rates in some Garda districts of over 80%.

New figures show only four out of the country’s 96 Garda districts solved more than half of all robberies, burglaries and theft in their area during 2015.

They also reveal that offenders have little chance of being caught for the large majority of such crimes in most other parts of Ireland.