So many Irish women murdered in 2026

[SmallorBigorBigorSmall]

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.

Agree, every day there seems to be another violent death. What isn't being accurately reported or commented upon by the media, as far as I can see anyway, is that the vast majority of these crimes are being committed by foreign nationals/asylum seekers. It's taboo to even mention it even though it is in fact the truth of what's happening. This type of liberal reluctance to face facts is what lead to Trump in the US, Farage in the UK, Le Pen in France etc. I don't want to go down that road in Ireland but we will if this continues. Our politicians are a disgrace

The press release from Women's Aid says the murders are carried out by men known to them, in some sort of relationship.

https://www.womensaid.ie/get-informed/news-events/media-releases/number-of-women-killed-violently-in-ireland-this-year-matches-2025-total/

More info here https://www.womensaid.ie/get-informed/campaigns-and-partnerships/femicide-watch/

From the article:

According to the Women’s Aid Femicide Watch for the Republic of Ireland, eight women have died in violent circumstances so far this year.

This number overtakes the recorded figure of seven women for the whole of 2025.

Maybe title should read so many women in Ireland because a lot of non Irish women are being killed here too but it is always a man they know although the statistics showing it is asylum seekers is perplexing and I have not seen the stats on that. The American woman killed in Ireland in the last few days was it seems killed by her boyfriend who was also not Irish but the amount of horrible things being said about HER bringing it on herself online is absolutely disgusting.

Agree @Kerrygirlie that is the case with most this year but there's no doubt there's plenty Irish born and bred who have and will do the same. Our systems should be updated to identify origin of criminals for murder and all sex related crimes (no idea of proper words) but wont be. Then we'd have proper data about who and what and where, not for a witch hunt but to know how at risk women are in Ireland.

@yetanotherusernameAgain I saw that press announcement but wouldn't include it. Our NGOs seem to be only able to react like this now and are of no use to female cause. Their first reaction is to protect the perp by making the story about all men. It benefits no one. They'd have been better to stay silent. In fact at this stage if an Irish NGO releases an immediate statement you can be certain that the perp is not white Irish born, its crazy. Mad world we live in.

Anyway its not about anything but the victims and in this case a 13 year old girl who is now without her Mom and also has to live with finding her beaten body.

@Anonanonanonagain you are right sorry i meant it how you put it above. So many women murdered in our little country.

That simply isn’t true but is nonsense peddled by the right wing protagonists to divide people and make them afraid.

You only have to read the crime stats to see that the majority of violence against women is carried out by men they already know and are likely in a relationship with.

We need stronger sentencing guidelines and for judges to be held to account when they’re found to be too lenient on the perpetrators.

@KrazyKatty dont want to go down the lefty vs righty route as serves no one. But bear in mind that you are correct that there's no data simply because it isn't collected. My point is that we should be collecting data re nationality and even religion and then we can all say what is and isnt happening and by who. People who dont commit crime have nothing to fear from this.

@SmallorBigorBigorSmall
You are so right about this, we definitely need proper stats about the origin of all perpetrators in murders and sex crimes particularly but also unbiased reporting of crimes. At moment, the only thing you can be sure is that if there's no information given about a suspect you can be sure he's non Irish whereas if it's an Irish suspect you are told everything about him. E.g. the recent murder of the woman in Killarney that started this thread, the police and the press will not report that he's a man from an Arab country even though she was in a relationship with him and had posts all over her social media with photos of the 2 of them together that anyone with a phone can look at.

Denmark publishes the stats and the left wouldn't like the results to be replicated in other countries.

The young woman killed in Birdhill a few months back was battered by a teenage girl who was being instructed by an older woman. A male drug dealer was probably at the root of it, but it was definitely women-on-woman violence, with the teenager being used very cynically.

I'm not sure whether the extent to which a lot of the victims and the people who attacked them belong to groups slightly outside mainstream society - immigrants, Travellers, suggests that the social networks of 'ordinary class' Ireland provide some protection. Which in turn suggests women on the edges are being let down.

I am not left or right or up or down leaning but I want a society and space within it that are as safe as possible for me and DD. I dont care if the perps are orange, yellow, blue or green or worship salt and vinegar crisps all of the information related to serious crime such as murder and of a sexual nature should be logged and tracked in a verifiable way and publicised because data speaks volumes and triggers change.
Our laws and implementation of them rely on the values and morals that were common years ago but aren't anymore. The laws and the implementation and the stats should be updated to reflect that reality.

Every day? It's 8 in 6 months. Which is obviously 8 women and girls too many, but wildly over-exaggerating does no-one any favours.

And where do you get that the vast majority of those women were murdered by foreign nationals and asylum seekers? Most are killed by a partner or ex and in 9 out 10 cases the killer is known to the victim?

@SadiraOfTyr pointless reply as there is no data because it isnt recorded so you dont know either and can't say what is or isnt true.

The only actual fact is that 8 unfortunate women have been murdered in Ireland and its only 09th July. Whether murderer was known to them or not that is a true fact and thats what you should be focussed on. Its in all our interest that the profiles of murderers and who commit sexual crimes should be logged so theres data that can be acted on from a legal and judicial perspective.

I was asking @Kerrygirlie how she knew that the vast majority were killed by foreign nationals/asylum seekers. As she has access to this data she should make it public - as you say, this data should be available.

God knows why you think there’s no data collected.
You obviously haven’t studied criminal law!!

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-rcvo/recordedcrimevictims2025andsuspectedoffenders2024/keyfindings/

It was reported immediately that he was an asylum seeker ffs. If anything it's the murders by Irish born men we hear less about. Not deemed newsworthy as they are so commonplace I suppose.
You'd probably have to trawl through local papers to find half of them. And as other posters have pointed out , the overwhelming number are carried out by men in a relationship with their victims.

Chat GPT will give you the stats

8 women 3 possibly Irish given their names.

1 a woman was the suspect

1 unsolved

1 foreign national victim with son main suspect

1 foreign national victim husband (also foreign) is the suspect

1 victim and suspect Iranian nations.

1 Irish victim and the suspect is likely Irish too.

In the 2 this week both victims and suspects are not Irish.

It may be people known to them but that does not preclude that these are foreigners.

I cannot copy the table but if you want to confirm here is the prompt for Chat GPT and you can confirm yourself.

‘There have been eight women murdered in Ireland since January. Can you review the newspapers and find out the names of the women and the suspected perpetrators?’

A user on Boards.ie (John_Rambo) posted this:

I asked AI to compile a list since January 2025. It could be wrong, but it doesn't look good.

2025
Paula Canty — 3 January 2025 Cork
Annie Heyneman — 11 January 2025 Cavan
Gillian Curran — 25 January 2025 — Waterford
Stella Ejiatu Nnadi — 25 February 2025 — Cork
Louise O’Connor — 29 September 2025 — Louth
Stella Gallagher — 17 November 2025 — Cork
Mary Holt — 6 December 2025 — Offaly

2026
Linda Costello — 10 April 2026 — Carlow
Scarlett Faulkner — 13 April 2026 — Tipperary
Milena Ostojic — 25 April 2026 — Galway
Yveta Donovalova — 27 April 2026 — Waterford
Masuma Sohrabi — 28 May 2026 — Galway
Noreen Daly — 14 June 2026 — Waterford
Adina Raluca Constantin — 5 July 2026 — Laois

This year, Scarlett Faulkner and the people arrested in her case were all members of the Travelling community.

Boards have closed the thread while they review it. Most of those cases have not yet gone to trial.

You are spectacularly missing my point. I know theres high level data and its been known for years that murderers are usually connected to the victim. As I said several times already the data thats recorded needs to evolve to reflect more information as the type of crime and offenders may have changed and we dont have data to say what the trends are and does our policing, laws, judicial system need to change. We shouldnt be afraid of data.

This is simply not true. Yesterday, only one of the red tops and Gript media reported that he was an asylum seeker, none of the mainstream media had reported this, most still aren’t, even though it was blatantly obvious from her social media.

And it’s also completely untrue to state that murders of women by Irish born men are not reported on, what an absolutely ridiculous thing to claim. Every murder of a woman is reported on widely and not in anyway commonplace as you claim.

And while the overwhelming number of these murders are carried out by people known to the women, or in a relationship with the women, we need to be keeping statistics on where these perpetrators originate from, because it’s a major risk factor.

Like Jamey Carney this week, yes her alleged murderer was known to her, but he was a Jordanian national, seeking asylum and living in an IPAS centre.

Adina Raluca Constantin - allegedly murdered by her Romanian husband.

Masumeh Manojan - allegedly murdered by her husband, an Iranian seeking asylum in Ireland

Yveta Donovalova - allegedly murdered by a Czech Republic national

Milena Ostojic - allegedly murdered by her Eastern European son

Scarlett Faulkner - allegedly murdered by 2 members of the Travelling Community. (Her brother also went on to take his own life a couple days after her funeral)

Linda Costello - no public suspect as of yet, man in 40s questioned and released.

Noreen Daly - allegedly murdered by a presumed Irish national (unconfirmed), however his surname has English origin and not commonly used in Ireland. He has also been linked to North Africa.

So of the 8 women murdered in Ireland this year, 1 is still under investigation, 1 was allegedly murdered by a presumed Irish national, 5 were allegedly murdered by non nationals and 1 allegedly murdered by an ethnic minority.

And you don’t think these statistics are worth keeping????

And you don’t think these statistics are worth keeping????

These type of statistics are very damaging for some people’s beliefs and worldview and for many people (arguably all people) their beliefs matter more than facts.

Immigration is highly beneficial for many reasons, food, culture, genuinely good people travelling to Ireland to live but it is nuanced and it is bringing significant problems with it that if the political class continues to deny and not attempt to address or just trying to bury their heads in the sand it will lead to enormous future problems.

20% of the Irish population is now foreign born (which can mean anything as you can be foreign born to Irish parents or Irish born to foreign parents) but if we use that as a guide then there is a real statistical significance to 20% of the population with such a high percentage of extremely serious crime.