February 2020 (the previous leap year) saw 2717 death notices. An average of 94 per day.

This February we see 3161. An average of 109 per day. That’s a 16% increase.

How’s your county doing?

Scroll our Counties page and see for yourself.

https://ripcounties.ie/counties/

For March we counted 3177 death notices, bringing us to 10074 for the first quarter of 2024.. This is on par with the previous three years but up 15% on the first quarter of 2020.

More details on The National Picture: https://ripcounties.ie/the-national-picture/

How’s your county doing?

Scroll our Counties page and see for yourself: https://ripcounties.ie/counties/

12,481 death notices in the first four months of 2020 – and media, public health and politicians were clamouring about the numbers dying.

635 more (13,116) in the first four months of 2024 – yet now media, public health and politicians are quiet about the greater numbers dying. Why?

How are the numbers in your county?
https://ripcounties.ie/counties/

FYI.... now on Batyon...

This June we’ve seen 20% (476) more deaths than June 2020.

This keeps 2024 deaths on course to exceed 2021 and match, if not outdo 2022 and/or 2023.

Yet, in marked contrast with 2020 (when less people were dying) the Irish media and public servants are not talking about it. Why?

More info on https://ripcounties.ie/

(Apologies. There was an error in the first issue of this post about July 2024. Figures up to and including June had been given. As you'll see in this corrected version, when July is included, the year-to-date figure for 2024 is actually 10% (not 7.7%) ahead of 2020. Again, apologies for the mistake and if you have shared the original inaccurate post please consider deleting it and replacing with this one. Thank you.)

The first July with over 3000 notices

This July we have seen 653 more deaths than July of 2020. That’s an increase of 27.6%

Taking a broader view, these 3015 notices bring us to 21956 so far in 2024. This is up 2003 (10%) on the 19953 recorded by this stage of 2020.

Do you remember 2020 – when ministers, media, medical professionals, public servants, schools, universities, celebrities, sports clubs, corporations, unions and more were up-in-arms about the (supposedly) vast numbers dying?!

More graphs on https://ripcounties.ie/

AUGUST 2024: UP 18.7% ON AUGUST 2020

The 2914 deaths this August represent an increase of 18.7% on the 2454 deaths of August 2020.

They bring the total deaths so far this year to 24870. While this is nearly identical to the 24862 deaths counted by this time last year, it is up 11% on the same point in 2020.

WHICH YEAR HAD THE WORST MONTH/QUARTER SO FAR?

You can now explore such questions using interactive tables offered on some pages of our site. Unfortunately these tables can’t be displayed here. But you can find out how to use them through this link.

https://ripcounties.ie/2024/09/03/august-2024/#which-year-had-the-worst

SEPTEMBER 2024: UP 15% ON SEPTEMBER 2020

How was September for your county?

https://ripcounties.ie/counties/

NOVEMBER 2024

Down 4% (134) on November 2023 - and the first November since 2020 with fewer than 3000 deaths.

Might things be easing up?

https://ripcounties.ie/2024/12/02/november-2024/

Site just updated with figures for June

https://ripcounties.ie/the-national-picture/

Charts now updated to July 31st

The whole country: https://ripcounties.ie/the-national-picture/

County by county: https://ripcounties.ie/counties/

Charts now updated to August 31st

The whole country: https://ripcounties.ie/the-national-picture/

County by county: https://ripcounties.ie/counties/