So many Irish women murdered in 2026

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More women murdered in Ireland between January and July 2026 than whole of 2025. Sad day for us and a worrying statistic when I think of DD. Another very violent death this week. Theres no answer but I know you all know how I feel.

I agree that it's shocking if people are saying she brought it on herself, which is just crazy. But I think it's not unreasonable to point out, in a context of most of the women who've been murdered this year having been killed by migrants/asylum seekers that a woman who is actively involved in organisation that encourage unvetted asylum seekers to come to Ireland - and an American woman at that - is not only being reckless with her own safety but is potentially putting other women at risk too. In Ireland, not America.

So while it may be a bit harsh considering the awful thing that happened to her, I do think it's fair to point out that she too is an example of a foreigner acting against the interests of Irish women for her own ideological reasons. The difference (and it's a big one) compared to some of the men like Yousef Palani or Riad Bouchaker is that she has been the victim of her own ideology, in the worst possible way, and not a perpetrator. But I don't think we shoudl continue to pretend that all the men who are coming into the country have good intentions, nor even any intention of integrating into Ireland. They want to exploit the opportunities they have in Ireland either for financial reasons, or, worse, to continue their extremist activities in relative safety. Safety for them, that is.

At the very least, other women need to know that their own good intentions are often not reciprocated.

Agree with a lot of what you say, and it is awful to see the horrible comments across socials blaming her for her own demise. Nobody deserves to be murdered in the way this woman has. I truly hope her daughter is not reading these.

That being said, there does need to be some consideration given to the fact that she welcomed this asylum seeking, Muslim man, from a country whose treatment of women is abhorrent and who she had only been dating a matter of months, into the home she shared with her 13 year old daughter. Her decision making and risk assessment was really shocking.

Women need to be better informed and educated on the increased danger that men from these backgrounds present… but that won’t happen, because ‘profiling’ and ‘racism’ innit?

It isn't men 'from these backgrounds'. It's men that you don't know from any background, and, sadly, as the murders by sons and husbands show, sometimes men you do know.

Not victim blaming, just saying people should be cautious with people no-one they know knows, and woman should be extra cautious.

That’s a convenient way of hiding the facts.

The alleged murderer in this case was an immigrant from the Middle East who the lady had befriended.

It makes me wonder how many murders by foreign nationals or immigrants have been similarly obscured in reporting. Well meaning women are often in the frontline of welcoming and helping immigrants.

When it is clear that news reporting intends to conceal instead of reveal the facts we need to keep asking why? We know that if the figures for murder and violence of immigrants was lower than the local men, those in authority would publicise it far and wide to rightly shut down those concerns. But they can’t do that. The only remaining question is ‘how much worse is it?’

The review of every femicide between 2020 and 2024 showed that, excluding a number of cases where the perpetrator is unknown or charges of murder or manslaughter have not been brought, 11 out of 35 killings of women and girls (31%) in those 5 years involved foreign nationals being found guilty of murder or charged with murder – a significantly disproportionate number.

https://gript.ie/foreign-nationals-charged-in-almost-1-in-3-killings-of-women-in-past-5-years/

There are more prosecutions pending post the compilation of these figures.

Women need to be better informed and educated on the increased danger that men from these backgrounds present… but that won’t happen, because ‘profiling’ and ‘racism’ innit?

This is the trouble. If acknowledging the facts that say statically these men kill or harm at a higher rate then other men is viewed as racist, then women who pride themselves on not being racist can seek to put themselves into situations where they may be harmed just to prove a point.

Sadly in this case, it is the people who acknowledge the stats that have been proved right.

I mean if we stand back and look at it, some men from countries where the social norms are to abuse and denigrate women may leave the country because they are so saddened by the treatment of women (but somehow frequently forget to bring their wives and mothers with them), and some men will bring all of their social norms with them.

These men find themselves in a high trust, high human rights awareness society with ‘human rights’ lawyers ready to fight their cases and maybe find a lack of consequences for their awful behaviour that they didn’t expect. Some are on social media laughing and saying how stupid they think we are for giving way to them. They may be right.

We all know that being in a relationship with a man increases our risk of being killed by him. It doesn't matter where he is from
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Except clearly it does matter. What you're doing there is some version of the "All men/Not all men" nonsense.

The data shows that, per head of population, men from certain migrant communities are FAR more likely to kill a woman. Why do we need to blame "all" men for that as though all men were equally likely to murder?

Ivana Bacik is blaming the 'toxic masculinity of Irish society' for the alleged actions of an asylum seeker from Jordan, same as Ruth Coppinger did about two gay men beheaded in Sligo, and Ashling Murphy's murder. It seems like it's grand to blame "all men" (and specifically all Irish men) but not to blame societies where there is genuinely toxic masculinity ... because "racism".🙄

Yeah no plenty of white women are beaten and killed by their white husbands every single day. They kill their whole family including kids. I remember my Irish neighbour who used to be black and blue most of the time because her husband would get drunk and beat the living shit out of her. I remember him stamping on her in the road and 2 local dads trying to calm him down.

Just very recently, a white man killed his pregnant partner with a pair of scissors 5 mins from me.

The problem is men. Men like yours. Men like mine. Men we have raised. Men we know. Men we love.

They don't even need a history of violence. It just needs to be more convenient for you to be dead than alive.

But it actually does statistically matter where they are from.

I’ve been drilling into the Denmark data on sexual offences convicted in 2025 today - they’re one of the few that really track criminal convictions by country of origin.

Of Danish people, 0.015% of the population were convicted of a criminal sexual offence in 2025. That’s based off a pop of 5.3m Dane’s living in the country, both male and female.

Using the same data sets, 0.03% of Turkish were convicted, 0.05% of Iraqis were convicted, 0.05% of Afghans and 0.07% of Syrians were convicted of sexual offences. (The highest offenders outside of the Danes themselves)

Considering the population data I’ve taken includes both males and females, then the numbers would increase exponentially if I were able to filter and query what % of Syrian/Afghan/Iraqi etc men only were convicted of sexual offences.

Men from these countries are statistically FAR greater perpetrators per capita than native Dane’s… 3, 5 and 7 times greater.

It’s completely disingenuous to say that it doesn’t matter where the men are from.

As discussed in this podcast, American and German women have refused to press charges against men who raped them because they, ideologically, felt they had white privilege over their non-white attackers - ideology can lead women to hurt themselves, and place other women in danger, if they don't have common sense as well.

https://overcast.fm/+ABSd2lDSzxk

I don't think anyone is denying that. What they're saying is that the rates are rising (and they are: there have been more murders in the first 6 months if this year than in the whole of last year, and mostly by foreign men) not because Irish men are getting more murderous but because we are importing men from societies where rates of femicide are MANY times higher than the rates in Ireland.

Why is it acceptable to say that rates of violence against women are enormous in Afghanistan, Syria or Palestine, but not to say that men who arrive unvetted from those countries are likely to bring those attitudes with them?
OECD: Tackling Violence Against Women in the Middle East and North Africa
End femicide in Jordan: American Bar Association

From https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2025-11/femicides-in-2024-global-estimates-of-intimate-partner-family-member-femicides-en.pdf:
"Moreover, Africa continues to account for the highest number of victims of intimate partner/family member femicide relative to the size of its female population (3 victims per 100,000 in 2024). The Americas and Oceania also recorded high rates of intimate partner/family member femicide in 2024, at 1.5 and 1.4 per 100,000 respectively,while the rates were significantly lower in Asia and Europe, at 0.7 and 0.5 per 100,000 respectively"
(Ireland is 0.31, so lower than the EUropean average.)

This, IMO is gaslighting:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41876339.html

Not because I think Irish men are never violent against women, but because I don't see how changing Irish society's approach to violence against women will have an effect on men who have grown up in societies where women are second class citizens and/or sex obects. Even men who have been here for a long time. What's needed is to target the worst offenders - and that requires acknowledging that certan societies are more tolerant of male violence against women than others.

It's a waste of previous resources to pretend all men are equally violent towards women. My father and brothers would never and have never hit a woman - including their sisters😬My dad couldn't bear to slap us, back when that was still a common punishment for children - he left that to my mum. I don't even know if he ever hit my brothers.

But for instance, in Ireland, alcohol is often a cause of violence - tackling that requires a different approach to men who have been brought up to believe that a woman should walk 5 steps behind her husband because she is inferior, and that a husband should beat his wife with a (small) stick if she defies him. Putting all that into the same "toxic masculinity" bag ensures that none of it will ever be solved.

That's very interesting data and is a model that should be applied across all EU countries and data analysed in each country and across all countries. It would be proactively gathering data to evolve systems and laws because societies change. Yes being in a relationship with a man puts you at higher risk but this year alone in Ireland being in a relationship with someone not originally from Ireland puts you at higher risk. That's just based on the 8 unfortunate women to date.

Just to reiterate this isn't about race creed or colour its about what current data is saying about womens safety in Ireland. If this is the number of murders can you imagine the data related to non fatal domestic abuse and sexual violence.

It’s incredibly interesting, and demonstrates, with absolutely zero ambiguity, that men from certain countries are far more dangerous to women than others. It’s not racist, it’s absolute fact.

And I completely agree that every single country in the EU should be tracking this data.

And women should be educated and warned about the increased danger that these men present.

You can check out their statistics office here: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner

Yes I agree that if we are able to trust the integrity of our system data cannot be avoided for ideological reasons. I actually think women are worse for this than men because men tend to recognise male violence and aggression because they are at the end of it at times too and also women are conditioned from birth to tolerate and hide and smoothen male behaviour.

Won't happen in Ireland because political correctness in the shape of the Irish Time is there to tell us what we should really be concerned about. And it's not women's safety.

So, basically a man from Jordan arrived in Ireland claiming to be fleeing for his life and was allowed to seek asylum. He then allegedly murdered a woman and fled back to the country he claimed he was unsafe in ... and Irish politicians blame porn and toxic masculinity from Irish men, while the gardaí are concerned that her murder will be used by the US hard right to stir up discontent in Ireland.

Yep, who could possibly think there's anything wrong with those priorities. Women are still second class citizens in Ireland - but it's not just the right who are guilty of that.

I've noticed the number of murders committed by men who appear not to be Irish-born - just by their names, they could of course be born and reared here and their parents and grandparents before them - and the victims of murder who also appear not to be Irish born.

I don't know what the accurate statistics are, but in a way, are stats helpful? What can we do about it? It's impossible to tell just by looking at him, or asking him questions in an interview, whether or not a man is going to rape or commit femicide. So it's not possible to weed out possible woman-killers at the immigration stage.

What is the solution? Almost all abusers/rapists/murderers are men, so I take the point that there is a danger in allowing more men into Ireland, as we have enough homegrown abusers/rapists/murders of our own.

Just as we don't know which Irish men are going to rape or abuse or murder women, we can't know in advance which immigrant man be violent, and which will be a decent respectable member of Irish society.

What's the plan? Stop all men from moving to Ireland, leaving us with just the abusive, raping, murderous Irish men who are here already?

Only allow in men from countries with an acceptable level of femicide? What is an acceptable level? Is one woman killed every three days acceptable, or should we exclude men from a country with that level of femicide?

I don't know what the solution is, in fact I don't see that there is a workable solution, unless it's a blanket ban on allowing any man to settle in Ireland, just to be on the safe side.

Very nihilistic attitude. Should we just wait for women to die and shrug when it happens?

Should we not gather any data on anything? Is evidence just pointless.

@MarieDeGournay

Yes, I believe we need a blanket ban on men coming from certain countries into Ireland. Why are we accepting men from Africa, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and many many more, when data can tell us that they are 3, 5, 7 or more times likely to commit sexual offences, domestic violence or even murder the women in this country? Why are we allowing this when we have enough of our own monsters to contend with?

Many, if not most, of the men seeking asylum or who are economic migrants from these countries, even if they are not a danger to women, have no skills or qualifications, can make no positive contribution, do not in any way attempt to integrate and are just a drain on society.

Why are we doing it?

Amazing timing as Oireachtas report on gender based violence released today and lots of statements from the political classes about "the scourge of society". More analysis and conclusions of available data on this thread than from any of them so its another ineffectual whitewash.

And how do you propose we ban all men from all those places?

Your blanket ban also exclude the Governor of our Central Bank, Gabriel Makhlouf - he's from one of the places you mentioned.

I'm not nihilistic, I'm pragmatic.

Pragmatism by definition allows a person to be open minded to new facts as they arise and to use those facts to contribute to workable solutions. You don’t even think data should be gathered that is not pragmatism.

Your pragmatism is based off what we have been doing all along though, what we have allowed to become the norm. But the norm is not working.

We simply ban them from entering the state, except in exceptional circumstances where threat to life is proved unequivocally or they have skills that are beneficial to the country. This applications are made prior to ever travelling to the country.

Withdraw from the relevant treaties, sharply restrict visas, amend our domestic law and possibly our constitution, whatever might be needed.

If they arrive, they are immediately sent home without processing, they don’t step foot outside the airport, or to one of the new processing hubs outside of the EU.

Why are we allowing this when and average of over 45% of cases of femicide have been committed at the hands of non nationals in this country in the last 10 years.

You think we should just shrug and say oh well, too hard to do anything about this, we’ll just let it happen?

What that tells me is that native Danish men are rarely convicted of the crimes they commit.

How does the data tell you that?