The number of women murdered and killed in Ireland is “not going in the right direction”, the Taoiseach has said.
Micheál Martin was responding during Leaders’ Questions after Ivana Bacik said the number of women violently killed so far in 2026 has overtaken the figure for the whole of last year.
The Labour leader raised the deaths of two women, Jamey Carney and Adina Raluca Constantin, in the last week in the Dáil.
“It’s become a cliché to describe violence against women as an epidemic and fatal violence against women as femicide, but that’s the reality,” she said.
Responding, Mr Martin said: “The numbers are not going in the right direction in terms of the continued violence and extreme violence that’s occurring, so there’s a societal response required.”
Bacik quoted a figure showing almost 90% of women murdered in Ireland were killed by a man who was...
