A Bloomsday bike messenger rally photocall last June
More than 14,000 bicycles, worth in excess of €2m, have been stolen over the past two-and-a-half years.
The scale of bike thefts is revealed in figures compiled by the Garda Analysis Services, which show that of the 14,000 bikes stolen since January 2016, Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway are being targeted specifically.
These four cities account for 83% of the total number of thefts.
More than 6,000 bikes were stolen last year, a 7.5% increase year-on-year.
More than 14,000 bikes stolen since 2016 (RTÉ)
Sponsored Link
Flann O’Brien might be more appropriate than Joyce in this case…
…he’d be recommending DNA matching for bikes and cyclists…
39 bikes a day. What a high level of performance? I wonder how much of that is industrial thieving for export and how much is just spontaneous robbing?
I wonder is it all in Dublin city and that they all end up in the same flats complex.
Hey! I haven’t heard the name Bernard Hinault in years! Gas. The Badger, was it?
I used to know a lot about cycling in the 80s.
More victim-blaming by An Garda Síochána – telling the poor cyclists to lock their bike.
Why not tell the robbers not to steal the bikes?
They wouldn’t listen? Cos they are ipso-facto bold?
Specifically targeting the four largest cities in the country.
Ingenious
In bicycle theft, we punch well above our weight. Maybe it should be introduced to the Olympics? Ireland could win a Gold medal!
I was in Denmark this summer. Lots of bikes in the street. Even in the middle of Copenhagen they often seemed to have no lock, or only a flimsy effort that wouldn’t last ten minutes in Dublin. Irish bike thieves must be more effective than the Danish ones…
do they pay as much for bicycles as they do for weed?