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 crime 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 3 (Q3) 2024 with Q3 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 this offence type increased by 1% to 6,343 in Q3 2025 compared with Q3 2024. The number of male victims rose by 4% to 3,870 while the number of female victims fell by 4% to 2,473 (See Figure 5.1 and Table 5.1).
Looking at the overall profile of victims when the incident occurred, those victims aged 45-59 years increased by 8% over the year and those aged 30-44 years increased by 3%. The number of victims in the other age groups fell with the largest decreases being for those aged 60 years or more (-6%) and those aged 18-29 years (-5%).
The trend among male victims reflected the overall trend even if the percentage changes were different in magnitude. Male victims aged 45-59 rose by 12% and those aged 30-44 years increased by 8%. However, there were decreases in the number of victims in the 18-29 years and 60 years or over categories.
Among female victims, the number of victims fell in all but the 45-59 age group which rose by 2%. Among the other age groups, the number of victims aged 60 years or more was down 11% and there was a 10% decrease in victims under 18 years of age (See Figure 5.1 and Table 5.1).
Table 5.2 below however shows that the age breakdown of male and female victims has remained relatively stable in Q3 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 | 4 | 4 | -5 | 8 | 12 | -4 | -4 | -10 | -6 | -3 | 2 | -11 |
| Under 18 | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-59 | 60 years and over | |
| Males Q3 2022 | 15 | 26 | 32 | 19 | 7 |
| Females Q3 2022 | 11 | 29 | 38 | 16 | 6 |
| Males Q3 2023 | 14 | 26 | 34 | 18 | 7 |
| Females Q3 2023 | 11 | 26 | 39 | 18 | 5 |
| Males Q3 2024 | 13 | 28 | 32 | 19 | 8 |
| Females Q3 2024 | 10 | 28 | 38 | 18 | 5 |
| Males Q3 2025 | 13 | 26 | 33 | 21 | 7 |
| Females Q3 2025 | 10 | 27 | 39 | 19 | 5 |
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