Near doubling of summer homicides leads to 12% increase in 12 months

The CSO points out that homicides are still significantly lower than recent years, with 87 offences in the year ending September 2018 and 73 in the year ending September 2020.

A violent summer – during which the number of homicides almost doubled – drove a rise in murders and manslaughter cases in the year ending last September.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) states that crime levels generally are now “closer to or above pre-pandemic levels”, with significant increases in thefts, burglaries, robberies, and assaults across all Garda regions.