There has been a substantial increase in burglaries and related offences, according to the latest CSO crime figures.
Burglaries rose by 10% in the 12 months up to September last year.
Most of the overall increase relates to burglaries without violence, although violent burglaries have also increased by 15%.
There were 9,981 reported burglaries, more than 27 every day.
Theft offences also continue to increase, up 7%, with the six out of every ten crimes a theft from a shop.
There were also increases in the theft of cars (up 6%), theft from people (20%) and handling stolen property.
There have been increases in kidnappings, firearms and explosives offences and public order offences.
Violent crime also increased with attempted murder, assaults and related offences up 3%.
Some organised crime offences continue to decrease with reductions in homicides and drugs offences, including cultivation, possession and drug dealing.
However shootings increased by 20% over the 12 month period and drugs importation was up 83%, with 84 cases recorded.
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Cash-in-transit robberies have almost stopped with just four recorded in the 12 month period.
Public Order and other social code offences increased 3% to over 30,000, with a 5% increase in disorderly conduct and a 16% increase in arson attacks which gardaí believe is linked to anti-immigrant sentiment.
There has been a reduction in cases of dangerous and drunk driving. However, almost 5,000 people were still caught drunk driving and there has been an increase in drug driving, with almost 2,000 people detected, an increase of 24%.
There were also more than 11,500 fraud offences recorded but this revised figure is not comparable to other years as gardaí reported a backlog in fraud cases reported by financial institutions.
These arose because a new mechanism was put in place for financial institutions to report all cases of fraud which they are legally required to do.
This has resulted in gardaí receiving a high volume of reports, including on cases of bogus texts and emails and in cases where the bank has refunded people money they have lost.
The CSO said it will continue to engage with gardaí around the quality of crime statistics and work with AGS to improve the coverage and presentation of fraud statistics.
Increase in thefts 'much, much higher'
The Chief Executive of the Convenience Stores and Newsagents' Association has said that there is "no doubt whatsoever" that the real figures behind an increase in thefts this year are "much, much higher."
Speaking on RTÉ's News at One, Vincent Jennings said retailers are reluctant to contact gardaí after incidents, because it takes such a long time for a garda to come out to their shop.
"The 999 system that is being used is totally inefficient," he said.
"It can take two or three days before you have a visit from a garda, and then the work that has to be done following up on a crime and nothing to happen from it, people have just thrown their hat at it,"
"At the same time, it is a really, really important exercise in getting forward the correct data, but you can understand how people just don’t bother."
Mr Jennings said that the measure of making 999 calls needs to be revisited, and that retailers should instead make contact with their local garda stations.
He added that anti-social behaviour is still a "real problem."
"There needs to be anti-social behaviour orders, there needs to be exclusion orders, we need to clearly tackle the level of drive-offs at petrol stations - they are at an absolutely extraordinary level in petrol stations.
"We need to be able to share information with the gardaí and the gardaí to share information with us,"
"Mostly, we need to protect our employees."
