The CSO in December 2024 and March 2025 provided updates to users on the impact on Fraud crime statistics of the backlog in the recording of potential fraud related crime incidents reported to An Garda Síochána by Financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011 on the PULSE system.
The CSO is advised by An Garda Síochána that it continues to work on the backlog of Section 19 referrals from Financial Institutions and is making progress on this issue. In addition, work is ongoing by An Garda Síochána to extend an existing reporting portal to handle Section 19 referrals. This system will improve the consistency and efficiency of the reporting process for Financial Institutions.
In view of this ongoing work, the CSO will continue to publish statistics on recorded incidents of Fraud, Deception & Related offences based on those directly reported to An Garda Síochána by members of the public and recorded on the Garda PULSE system. Therefore, users should continue to exercise caution in the interpretation of published statistics on recorded crime incidents of this offence type as they are below the overall reported level and should be considered incomplete.
This section provides a breakdown of victims of Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (‘Assault & Related offences’) by age when the incident took place. Table 5.1 compares data for Quarter 1 (Q1) 2024 with Q1 2025. Please note that the number of victims here are slightly different to the number of incidents in Table 2.2 as there can be incidents where no injured party is recorded.
The overall number of people recorded as victims of Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences fell by 1% to 5,370 in Q1 2025 compared with Q1 2024. The number of male victims fell by 3% to 3,176 and the number of female victims rose by 1% to 2,194.
Looking at the age profile of victims when the incident occurred, those victims aged 60 years or more showed the largest decrease over the year. Male victims in this age cohort fell by 13% and female victims fell by 8%. Other notable changes were a fall of 6% in male victims both aged under 18 years and 45-59 years at the time of the incident. For female victims, there were increases of 3% and 2% respectively for those in the 30-44 and 45-59 year age groups (See Figure 5.1 and Table 5.1).
However, Table 5.2 below shows that the age breakdown of male and female victims has remained relatively stable in Quarter 1 of each year since 2022.
| All Males | Males aged under 18 | Males aged 18-29 | Males aged 30-44 | Males aged 45-59 | Males aged years 60 and over | All Females | Females aged under 18 | Females aged 18-29 | Females aged 30-44 | Females aged 45-59 | Females aged 60 years and over | |
| ICCSq Offence Group 03 | -3 | -6 | 1 | 0 | -6 | -13 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -8 |
| Under 18 | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-59 | 60 years and over | |
| Males Q1 2022 | 14 | 29 | 30 | 20 | 7 |
| Females Q1 2022 | 12 | 32 | 35 | 17 | 3 |
| Males Q1 2023 | 16 | 27 | 32 | 19 | 6 |
| Females Q1 2023 | 13 | 28 | 36 | 17 | 6 |
| Males Q1 2024 | 14 | 26 | 33 | 20 | 7 |
| Females Q1 2024 | 11 | 28 | 39 | 18 | 6 |
| Males Q1 2025 | 14 | 27 | 33 | 19 | 7 |
| Females Q1 2025 | 10 | 28 | 39 | 18 | 5 |
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