Limerick and south Dublin city had the highest murder rate per head of population for the four years between 2004 and 2008.
The CSO Crime Report found the Dublin south city area also had the highest number of burglaries, with and without violence. This was more than two and a half times the national average.
Cavan and Monaghan had more drunken drivers - 736 for every 100,000 people. The lowest number of drink driving offences was in Dublin east at 183 per 100,000, while State average was 405 per 100,000.
The report also shows that drugs, explosives and gun crime doubled over the four years.
Detection rates varied from 99% for drugs and road traffic offences in 2008, to 22% for damage to property and the environment.
Only one in four burglary and related offences were detected in 2008, up from less than one in five (17%) four years earlier.
Detection rates for homicide offences, including murder, manslaughter, infanticide and dangerous driving causing death, fell over the four years from 95% in 2004 to 83%.
And while the detection rate for robbery, extortion and hijacking offences increased from 37% in 2004 to 50% in 2008, half of these crimes were still unsolved.
Court proceedings were begun in just half of the cases of dangerous driving leading to death in 2008 and of those 17, nine are still before the courts, six have led to convictions and two to acquittals.
Of the more than 1,400 sex offences recorded in 2008, only 29 people had been convicted by October of last year.
And of the more that 330,000 road traffic offences recorded in 2008, there were 31,812 convictions, while 80,037 were acquitted.
