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 (AGS) by Financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011 on the PULSE system.
The CSO is advised by AGS 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 AGS 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 crime incidents of Fraud, Deception & Related offences based only on those directly reported to AGS by members of the public and recorded on the Garda PULSE system. The CSO will continue to exclude incidents of Fraud that have arisen from Section 19 referrals until this data can be coherently included in official crime statistics.
Therefore, users should continue to exercise caution in the interpretation of published statistics on recorded crime incidents of this offence type.
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 2 (Q2) 2025 with Q2 2026. 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 number of female victims of Assault & Related offences rose by 4% or 110 to 2,659 victims in Q2 2026 from Q2 2025. This was driven mainly by increases in victims aged 30 to 44 years (+23 victims) and those aged 45 to 59 years (+74 victims).
The number of male victims remained virtually unchanged at 3,751 victims in Q2 2026.
The overall number of people recorded as victims of this offence type rose by 2% to 6,410 in Q2 2026 compared with Q2 2025. The highest rate of increase was among victims who were aged 45 to 59 years (+6%) when the incident took place (See Figure 5.1, Table 5.1, and PxStat Table CJQ09).
Table 5.2 and Figure 5.2 below show that the age breakdown of male and female victims has remained relatively stable in Q2 of each year since 2023.
| 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 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 4 | -1 | -6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 4 |
| Under 18 | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-59 | 60 years and over | |
| Males Q2 2023 | 17 | 26 | 31 | 19 | 7 |
| Females Q2 2023 | 12 | 29 | 36 | 18 | 5 |
| Males Q2 2024 | 14 | 25 | 33 | 20 | 8 |
| Females Q2 2024 | 11 | 30 | 37 | 18 | 5 |
| Males Q2 2025 | 14 | 27 | 32 | 20 | 8 |
| Females Q2 2025 | 11 | 29 | 37 | 17 | 5 |
| Males Q2 2026 | 14 | 26 | 33 | 20 | 7 |
| Females Q2 2026 | 11 | 28 | 37 | 19 | 5 |
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