New figures have revealed 113 motor thefts were reported in Co Wexford last year.
The CSO figures show that’s a 27% increase on the 89 incidents from the previous 12 months in the county.
Nationally, a total of 7,623 motor thefts were reported in 2023, with 5,000 of those vehicles being cars.
The 2024 national figure has surpassed 2023 by 4%, demonstrating an upwards trend in car thefts and related incidents and highlighting 2024 as the worst year for motor theft in Ireland in more than a decade.
Meanwhile the CSO’s recorded crime figures for 2024 show there was a 13 per cent decline in homicides and related offences with 77 incidents last year.
Compared to 2023, there were also declines in robberies and drug offences, which show a 10 and 7 per cent drop respectively.
However there was an 8 per cent increase in sexual offences and a 5 per cent rise in both weapons and explosives and public order crimes.
In the Dublin Metropolitan Garda region, there was a 9 per cent increase in the number of attempts / threats to murder and assaults, the figure was 6 per cent in the Eastern region, however for the northwest there was a 3 per cent decline and a 5 per cent decline in the southern region.
