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.

Worth watching Ken O’Flynn’s words in the Dáil this week: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRoG19Yy/

The Private Members bill he’s bringing forward is call the Criminal Records, Recording of Nationality and Immigration Status Bill 2026. I’ll be keeping a close eye on this once it hits the Dáil

Linden house won’t feel “heat” because IPAS residents can stay away for a few nights / I can’t remember how many - without explanation.

So they haven’t done anything wrong here.

He was here as an asylum seeker and his claim had been rejected. He was appealing this and had been returned his passport.

Ukrainian’s are here under a different umbrella. They were given temporary protection and had more access to social welfare and so on straight away. They have many more rights than an asylum seeker in IPAS

If it gets voted down we’ll know that they know foreign men are more likely to commit violent and sexual crimes.

Unfortunately, if they are that determined to hide the truth, they may also take further action to reduce these numbers which could increase an aversion to prosecuting these men (rather than removing them).

He wouldn't have been here under the same scheme as Ukrainian people. His asylum had been refused and passport returned, presumably to allow for voluntary self deportation. He remained in the country pending an appeal.
As for his social media, I would have concerns,to an extent, about trawling through posts or likes someone made years ago and judging someone on them. But, allegedly,he was actively following accounts that would have raised red flags regarding his attitude towards women.
I know a young Irish student who was refused a J1 visa to the US this summer as his social media was private. He had to make it public for the purposes of his visa application and it was eventually granted.
Some of the online comments about Jamey Carney have been just vile. I have seen similar said about Ann Widdecombe. It's as if people are judged solely on whether they are right or left wing and nothing else matters.
Things most people would never say publicly but really showing their true personality under the cloak of anonymity. It's sickening to realise such people walk amongst us.

I have a lot of respect for Ken O'Flynn. He really seems to have a lot of integrity.
I hope this passes. It's very hard to make laws or policies in a vacuum of information.

Yes, I tend to respect how he conducts himself in office as well. Even though I don’t agree with the fact that he opposed the repeal of the 8th amendment and recently voted against the removal of the 3 day wait, he has his own set of guiding principles (as wrong as I think they are) and he is vocal about them.

I don't have any issue with his opinion on the Repeal the Eight as long as he respects the outcome of the democratic process.
He spoke very eloquently, as a gay man,on his opinion on Pride month recently.
There isn't anyone in the world I will agree with on everything but his beliefs seem to be genuinely held and not bandwagon jumping. He isn't afraid of going against the grain and we need people like that in the Dail.

Well that’s my sentiment too. I can’t possibly agree with everyone. His views are his views, and he is entitled to them. Same with Gript as a media outlet. I do not agree with a lot of their standpoints, but I respect them, and am appreciative for the work they do.

to put it in context there are about 33,000 asylum seekers in Ireland and applications fell around 25% last year. So not sure if this could be considered large numbers.

But generally there are more people on the move by ever before, there are more asylum seekers everywhere in the world. Most stay in countries close to home. But it’s all driven by mainly conflict but also climate change. Absolutely no government wants to be dealing with a refugee crisis but this is the situation.

I would actually consider it very large numbers, especially when put with the 120,000+ here seeking International Protection and the 880,000+ non-Irish citizens. Not to mind any of those undocumented or here illegally which is estimated to be anywhere from 15,000 to 30,000.

Nearly 1 in 4 people in this country were not born here.

I’m not just talking about asylum seekers though. The total number of immigrants to the Republic of Ireland in the last 10 years is 1.22 million (if I’m reading the figures correctly - if they are true no wonder the Irish are having difficulties).

The population of RoI 10 years ago was 4.7 million. Approx 75% of those are from outside the EU. That is a monumental demographic change in 10 years.

Oops cross post. It’s even worse over 10 years. I hadn’t realised quite how bad.

Given the differentials in typical birth rate Irish will be outnumbered in the not very distant future.

My apologies I didn’t realise you were questioning all immigration.

The “why” there is very simple, we need people to work here. We don’t have enough people in the workforce ourselves. Over 50% of nurses, 40% of doctors and I’d imagine a majority % of cleaners, shop workers, care workers, hospitality staff ect…

That’s why we have immigration.

The role of criminal gangs engaging in human trafficking is also a massive part of the problem though. I know it's not all the migrants, but it's a lot. If you've listened to the BBC podcasts "To catch a scorpion" and a second called "To catch a king" you'll know that, for example, the reason why many men are crossing with one child and claming to be widowers is a deliberate strategy advised by gangs: one of the people they spoke to was a woman whose ex husband had just taken one of their children and disappeared - she had no idea whether her daughter was even alive.

The reason they subject a child to a traumatic journey is because with a child they won't be sent back. It's not because they care about the child's welfare - they're literally risking the child's life just for the financial benefit to themselves of getting to Europe. A man who abandons the rest of his family

They also pay large sums of money (even by western standards) to travel, so they're not really the poorest people in their countries. Or alternatively, if they don't have that money, they basically sell themselves into the power of the gangs, which is how many women end up in forced prostitution, or men end up producing/selling drugs. They're sold a dream by the gangs but it's not based on reality.

You don't think India or Sri Lanka could do with those doctors and nurses? We have a far higher ratio of medical staff to patients than in the countries that are sending trained medics of various levels to us. We're letting poor countries pay to train doctors and nurses at their expense, and then just poaching them with salaries that their own countries can't pay.

That's another deliberate choice, this time by western countries: we could train more medical staff (or employ them after training) but it's cheaper to take people from abroad for less money.

Yet unemployment is 5% and rising.

In the U.K. We have found that person that comes in on a care worker visa is a net cost across their lifetime to us of £36,000 (more if they bring a spouse and elderly relatives).

I’m sure it would be cheaper and more ethical to train up Irish people instead of poaching trained staff from abroad. Not to mention the potential quality issues and language barriers. If there are not enough local candidates maybe the savings could be used to pay them more and other incentivising programmes instead of expecting black people to do it for less.

Zack Polanski’s quip about immigrants from poor countries being brought in because ‘he didn’t want to wipe bums’ was a shocker.

I completely agree with you about the brain drain on other countries. I can remember when this was a major problem for Ireland in the 80’s.

It’s not really a choice - they are increasing capacity for training (this takes time) but it’s a multi pronged issue - having resources for handling training staff and not being able to retain Irish medical staff. Right now as it stands we absolutely need immigrants to work in our health system.

We could improve the conditions staff work under?

5% unemployment is nothing. It’s historically extremely low.

Care workers cost the UK money because they are abmismally paid.

there is literally not the Irish people to train up: Companies are literally paying people to do the course:

Again they could improve the conditions of these roles

That’s always the argument. But it’s not that we don’t have enough people in the workforce, it’s that we don’t want to provide the proper pay, conditions and opportunities for Irish people to stay in the workforce.

About 650 doctors emigrate from Ireland every year, and approximately 27% of newly graduated nurses.

We have plenty of nurses, doctors and healthcare workers but we don’t want to pay them what they deserve. And who is the biggest employer of healthcare workers? That’s right, the Irish government!

Im not in anyway against fair immigration, it can add diversity and bring a skill set we don’t produce, but what’s happening now is beyond comprehension.

Jozef Puska was Slovak, had a right to free movement, but why was he allowed stay? He, and all of his family members were a drain on the state for the last 10 years and will be long into the future.

There’s plenty more people like him who haven’t murdered anyone that dont make headline news, I live near lots of them. We have lost complete control.

Possibly though I think making a serious attempt to fix the housing crisis would be a better way of tackling things. That's a different question though.

The point is that it's just not true that we "need" lots of immigrants. Not even to work in shops or other lower paid jobs - we're not Korea or Japan with negative population growth. Young Irish people are still leaving the country and there are lots of ways to keep them or enable them to come back after a few years abroad is anyone cared enough to try.

And while we're probably doing poor countries a favour when we take in unskilled migrants (but why do we want to do that?), we're certainly not doing them any favours when we take the ones they've educated and trained.

When I once went (back) to an EU country without a job lined up, I got a letter telling me I would have to leave if I hadn't found one within a certain time (I did find one).

Ireland seems to make zero effort to apply that rule.

While young Irish people are leaving in droves. 🤔

Are you in the government? You certainly seem to have the narrative learned off by heart.

lets look at the facts on this.

https://diasporasupport.ie/the-2025-cso-migration-figures/

So they leave but they also return. So no we are not losing Irish citizens “in their droves”

I’m not the government and I would certainly support improving conditions for jobs like caring and the health system.

But I think we should work off the facts. And right now we need immigration.