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THE CSO HAS released an overview of what its work revealed about Irish society in 2022, covering everything from baby names to the cost-of-living crisis.
Part one of Ireland 2022: The Year In Numbers focused on society and the environment.
Here’s a selection of some headline figures – you can find the full report here.
People are still saving significantly more than pre-pandemic (down slightly to 19% in Q3 2022, but still higher than previous levels of 10%) even after restrictions have been lifted, but the bite of rising inflation and the increasing cost of living is seen elsewhere:
Almost every respondent to a survey conducted in November said they were making cutbacks.
The lasting impact of advice to work from home is clear, with four in ten employees now working remotely, up from one in twelve pre-pandemic – and the vast majority (74%) say they have more time on their hands
More than half of the respondents to a survey in May said they were spending more time outdoors since the start of the pandemic, and it was the catalyst for 70% of them realising how important being out in the natural world was to their well-being. More than 40% of people aged 18 to 34 took up new activities.
The stats on criminal offences shows a significant rise (43%) in the number of fraud incidents in the 12 months to June 2022, while theft and related offences were also up (23%). The picture when it comes to homicides is a nuanced one:
However, the number of Homicides fell by 38% between Q2 2021 and Q2 2022, falling from 64 such deaths to 40. This was mainly driven by a fall of 17 (-53%) in Dangerous Driving Leading to Death incidents over this period.
The number of new electric cars is continuing to grow, with the number up 82% in the first 11 months of 2022 when compared with the same period in 2021, with a conventional hybrid being the most popular type (45%).
The most common (63%) reason to not purchase an electric car was the price.
Energy use by data centres was found to have increased by 32% between 2020 and 2021.
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Strikes me as a little odd reporting sentences as a combination. It’s as if article is attempting to make their punishment out to be more severe than it actually is.
When you consider the fact that prisoners very often only serve about half of their sentences the headline might be more accurately written as
“Three brothers will spend roughly 3-4 years each in prison after string of robberies”
@Derek Murphy: and after effectively ensuring that severall sma towns and villages will no longer have ATMs.
Irish Judges: robbing banks?? 20 years!!
Also Irish Judges: se.x.ually assualted your own kids for a decade? Meh.. 5 years. Out in 3.
@Rob Gale: It’s actually 20 years combined.
@Hannah: They gave someone 30 years for kidnapping a wealthy business man. But do it to a child for their whole life and you get a suspended sentence. It’s shocking really. If we can give large sentences like that for these crimes how can they justify not giving them for child abuse?
@Rob Gale: neither sentence is anywhere near enough, joke
@Jonathan Barr: I fully agree with you.
We seriously need more prison spaces in this country.
@Chris Mc: why not export our prisoners to countries willing to take them. Who says they have to be imprisoned here ? The cost of a prisoner per year in ireland is easily in excess of 100k. Put that out to tender. The Chinese might house them for 10k per year. Going to prison might not be seen as so cushy then…..
Bit of a joke headline – 20 year combined. That means nothing – the two longest sentences were 8 yrs 9 months, with one year suspended. That means about 5 years and 10 months with remission! Very dishonest journalism!
@Ciaran Leonard: actually that would be 6 years and 6 months with standard remission
Is the €790,000 nicely tucked away for the release in a couple of years?
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