Anger erupted in Cork City Hall on Friday when a new forum to enhance community safety in Cork City refused to comprehensively share crime statistics, sparking allegations of secrecy and whitewashing. This is public information that should be revealed to the public,” Sinn Féin's Tommy Gould told the Irish Examiner. To be fair, it's not Cork City Council’s fault, it’s not the gardaí's fault. Assaults in the Cork city policing area had also increased significantly, growing from 916 in 2024 to 1,006 in 2025 — a 9.8% increase. Some 55 scrambler bikes have been seized by gardaí in the Cork city policing district since 2023.

Source: Irish Examiner February 06, 2026 20:03 UTC