Ireland has grown more diverse in recent years, and so has the country’s variety of recorded crimes. In 2022, two gay men were murdered in Sligo by the son of Iraqi-Kurdish refugees. In 2023, three children were stabbed at random in Dublin; the attacker only spoke Arabic to his translator in the following trial. In October 2025, a Kuwaiti national pleaded guilty to the murder of his eight-year-old daughter in Wexford the previous year. A more modest addition to this catalogue of horrors happened last November in Cork, when a man walked past a woman and elbowed her in the face, knocking her unconscious. She sustained a broken eye socket, while her attacker remains at large.
