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MURDERS WERE UP 31% in Ireland last year compared to the year previous.
The crime figures from the Central Statistics Office also showed sexual offences increased by 8% and sexual assaults on children were up over 20%.
The number of sexual offences was higher in Dublin compared to the rest of the country.
There was also a sharp rise in neglect and cruelty with over 260 cases of child cruelty or neglect last year, an increase of over 50%.
Murders
There were 38 murders in 2016, compared to 29 in 2015.
The ongoing feud between the Hutch and Kinahan gangs accounted for the deaths of ten people last year.
For a larger image of the above chart, click here.
There was a drop in kidnappings, hijackings and robberies but a 6% increase in drugs crime.
In a note attached with the statistics, the CSO referenced the investigation into the number of garda breath tests carried out between 2012 and 2016. It said:
The CSO requested data on the 148,000 offences to establish whether any of these offences had been incorrectly included in the quarterly recorded crime data as additional incidents.
It concluded that “An Garda Siochana provided the details of the 148,000 offences and the CSO have determined that these offences do not appear to have affected the quarterly Recorded Crime series.”
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If the an post was private that would never happen congratulations to are postal service and to the local people in the office that worked it out your a credit
One of our great country’s wonderfel quirks.. Long may it continue.
Wonderful
I which our postwoman would stop destroying everything she crunches up and stuffs through the letterbox.
She also seems to just randomly shove other people’s mail into my letterbox.
Wench.
She doesn’t like you…
I think a privatised postal service would have no problem going that bit further for some free publicity
I once sent a letter (by accident) to a person and his address on the envelope simply read (obviously I’m not gonna put the name here)
*Man’s Name*
Co. Waterford
Take that Eircode!
It may be your letterbox that doesn’t like you………
amazing, no eircode needed, why did we need to waste 27 million again, Ohh I forget #thisisireland
There’s only one bloke in Buncrana with glasses anyway.
There’s only 1 doing a PhD.
Breda, Its One lad with glasses doing a PhD at Queens in Belfast.
Jesus,the comments here are like a collective anti-grammar flash mob.
We get the gist already!! While An Post are figuring out these cryptic addresses some poor fecker is missing some important post!!
Cant really fault An Post to be fair, recently ordered contact lenses but company i got them from omitted half my address but i still got them a few days later then scheduled as they had done the rounds to all the cork city avocas b4 finally getting to mine! I was dead impressed!!
The post man dropped it into the office of Yer Man’s wife.
The nite inside was a classic.
If you get this you live in a village…!
Obviously a decision between him and the sender about whether Buncrana is a town.
It is a town, by the way..!
They can do this yet over the past few weeks they have decided my postal address should be a town 16 km from my actual address. All mail now has huge stickers with ‘incorrect address’ on it and some deliveries have been delayed as a result. Odd the proper actual address was fine for years then all of a sudden its not.
I received a letter mailed to me from a health insurance company in the USA. It simply had my name and Dublin 6! How many people live in Dublin 6. It puts the USA’s postal service to shame. They return letters to sender for a one digit error in the postal code.
Our Eircode thing had the wrong name and address, still got to us.
I’m be beginning to think these stories are marketing stunts by An Post!
There’s a great postal service in Donegal.
My cousin sent a Christmas card home from Australia to her parents in Donegal and addressed it to “Mammy and Daddy” Townland, Town etc. It went round all the houses in the area till someone recongnised the handwriting. Made it though!! LOL
danny I have great friends from burnfoot ya can tell the rest to look it up ..or get into a fuuccking car drive around Ireland and love the place there from .
That’s about 3 miles from me.
Good man danny .the hegertys
Sent aChristmas card to Jackie Healy Rae no address and he recieved it no problem
And my letter posted last Monday the 13th. With my name and Eircode have not arrived yet this is Fri.17th.
They probably realised you were being a smartarse.
@ Tony Hartigan if you only had your name and Eircode on the letter then, as far as I have been informed, your letter wasn’t properly addressed and An Post are not obliged to deliver it. I’m sure a call to Comreg would confirm this.
Only in Ireland!!
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