IE incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in IE. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
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- Documented records
- 9
- Cities represented
- 8
- Latest incident date
- 22 August 2026
- Latest review
- 12 September 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 records | — |
| 2025 | 3 records | — |
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Current judicial status
- 3Alleged
- 4Charged
- 1On trial
- 1Convicted
Latest judicial-status entries
- Doneraile, IE
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- Dún Laoghaire, IE
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- Dublin, IE
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- Galway, IE
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- Limerick, IE
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- Ballinasloe, IE
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- Waterford, IE
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- Waterford, IE
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Latest documented records
- Homicide in limerick, IE
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 33-year-old woman was found dead in a third-floor apartment in the Carlton House complex on Lower Cecil Street in Limerick city at about 7.30am on Friday 22 August 2026. Gardaí carried out a welfare check after workmates reported her absence, and discovered her body. The victim was a Brazilian national from Sorocaba in São Paulo state and worked for a local cleaning company. She had been stabbed. Following a post-mortem examination, An Garda Síochána opened a murder investigation; the results of the examination were not released, for operational reasons. The scene was preserved for technical examination. Gardaí said they were following a definite line of inquiry and were seeking to question a man in connection with the killing. No arrest had been made at the time of the cited reports, and a Garda family liaison officer was assigned to the victim's family.
- Attempted homicide in ballinasloe, IE
· Alleged · 3 sources
A man in his 20s was shot in the face during a break-in at a house in the Dunlo area of Ballinasloe, Co Galway, at about 3:15am on Monday 3 August 2026. Gardaí believe he was asleep in bed when the house was targeted by a gunman who forced his way in. He survived and was treated at University Hospital Galway for injuries described as non-life-threatening. Gardaí appealed for camera and dash-cam footage from the Cúlán Eiscir Riada area between 2:30am and 4:00am. On 5 August 2026 a man in his 20s was arrested in connection with the shooting and detained at a station in the Garda North Western Region under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007. No charge has been announced, and investigations are ongoing.
- Homicide in dún laoghaire, IE
· Alleged · 1 source
A 39-year-old man was shot dead at Patrician Park on Kill Avenue in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, on the morning of Sunday 5 July 2026. He was shot in the upper leg and bled to death at the scene. Gardaí said they believed he had gone to the park at about 8.30am for a prearranged meeting, and that he was fatally injured either during a struggle over a handgun or when he was deliberately shot as part of a dispute or a so-called punishment shooting. RTÉ reported it as the first gang-related murder in Ireland in 2026 and the first organised-crime gun killing since 2024. On 10 September 2026 gardaí arrested a man in his 40s in connection with the murder. He was detained at a garda station in Dublin, and the investigation is continuing.
- Homicide in mulhuddart, IE
· Charged · 1 source
The victim was attacked near his home in Mulhuddart, west Dublin, on 3 July and died in hospital two days later. A 43-year-old suspect has appeared in court charged with murder and was remanded in custody.
- Homicide in waterford, IE
· Charged · 1 source
A 43-year-old woman was killed at her home in the Grange Heights housing estate in Waterford city on 27 April 2026. She was discovered with serious injuries at the house that evening. A 39-year-old man has been charged with her murder and with assault causing harm arising from the same incident. On 3 July 2026 the Director of Public Prosecutions consented to his being sent forward to the Central Criminal Court, and on 4 August 2026 he was formally returned for trial.
- Homicide in galway, IE
· Charged · 1 source
A 65-year-old woman died on 24 April 2026 after sustaining serious injuries at her home at Claí Mór, Ballybrit, Galway. Her son was brought before Galway District Court on the morning of 2 September 2026, charged with her murder.
- Homicide in doneraile, IE
· Convicted · 5 sources
A 21-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of a Cork postman. A 17-year-old boy was separately found guilty of the same murder on 30 July 2026. Victim impact statements are to be heard before he is sentenced. On 31 August 2026 the 21-year-old was given the mandatory life sentence for murder, backdated to 3 July, with credit directed for time already spent in custody on the matter. The judge described the circumstances of the death as brutal, saying that while the action that took the victim's life was not prolonged, it was a brutal one, and noted that the defendant does not accept the murder verdict although he accepts that he caused the death. Two teenage co-accused cannot be named because of their age. Both pleaded guilty to manslaughter and not guilty to murder. The State refused to accept that plea from the older of the two, aged 17, who was then convicted of murder by a jury; the plea of the younger, aged 16, was accepted by the Director of Public Prosecutions. Both teenagers were sentenced on 11 September 2026. The 17-year-old received 11 years in detention with the final three years suspended, together with a concurrent two-year sentence for assaulting a man earlier the same evening. The 16-year-old received two and a half years in detention with the final six months suspended. The court heard how the killing came about. The town had been celebrating a Junior B hurling championship win, with the players given a lap of honour and much of the population on the main street, and a series of brawls followed outside a pub at closing time. The victim struck the girlfriend of the man later convicted of his murder, accounts varying as to whether that was accidental or deliberate, and the three then went to the victim's home on what the sentencing judge described as an "armed retaliatory expedition". The judge noted there was very little evidence of what occurred in the early hours outside the house.
- Attempted homicide in dublin, IE
· Charged · 2 sources
A man in his early 40s was shot and wounded near the Corduff shopping centre on Blackcourt Avenue in Dublin 15 at about 4.40pm on 26 August 2025. Gardaí believed the shooting was a planned attack, and worked on the theory that the victim and a close associate were chased by the gunman through the Corduff area before shots were discharged. The victim's injuries were not regarded as life-threatening and he later recovered. On 4 September 2026 a woman in her 50s appeared before Blanchardstown District Court charged in connection with the shooting, and a man in his 20s, arrested under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007, was due before Dublin District Court the same evening.
- Homicide in waterford, IE
· On trial · 2 sources
A 47-year-old woman was found unresponsive at her partner's house on O'Brien Street in Waterford city on the morning of 25 January 2025 and was pronounced dead a short time later. The State Pathologist gave the cause of death as blunt force traumatic injuries to the head and abdomen, and told the trial she had found extensive external and internal injuries whose overall pattern was consistent with a sustained assault, including bruising around both eyes consistent with direct trauma such as a punch and neck injuries consistent with compression by a hand. A 35-year-old man is on trial for her murder at the Central Criminal Court. The prosecution case is that the injuries were the result of a violent assault; the defence contends that she sustained them accidentally in falls after drinking. The trial opened on 9 July 2026 before a jury of five men and seven women, and the jury began its deliberations on 27 July 2026 after the judge completed his charge.