Domestic abuse calls in Cork up by 44% since 2020

The number of domestic abuse calls in Cork has risen by 44% since 2020, with a total of 26,231 calls recorded in the last five years, new Garda data shows.
Across Cork city and county, calls rose from 3,932 in 2020 to 5,664 in 2024 (the latest year for which there are complete figures), an increase of 44%. Nationally there was a similar increase, from 44,782 calls in 2020 to 65,224 in 2024.
Domestic abuse calls include the breach of a barring order, emergency barring order, safety order, protection order, or interim barring order, as well as any other incident type that has a recorded ‘domestic abuse’ motive.
In Cork city, there have been a total of 15,207 domestic violence calls since 2020. There were 2,333 calls in 2020, 2,345 in 2021, 2,790 in 2022, 3,100 in 2023, 3,254 in 2024, and 1,385 in 2025 to June 3. The figures for 2025 show a monthly average of 277 calls, which, if continued, would see calls rising to 3,324 this year. The monthly average was 194 in 2020, meaning there has been a 43% rise in five years in the city.
In Cork county, 11,024 people called about domestic abuse in the last five years; 1,599 in 2020, 1,799 in 2021, 1,982 in 2022, 2,260 in 2023, 2,411 in 2024, and 973 in 2025 so far. The monthly average increased from 133 in 2020 to 194 this year.