Safety stats

Cited counts and rates for road casualties and recorded crime. These are official statistics, not a measure of how safe a particular street or person is.

Related projects: Ireland Road Deaths (RSA), Crime Stats IE (Brian Fox). Not affiliated; see ../_shared/inspirations.md.

Calling the tools

Steps name each operation as source/operation (e.g. cso/cso_get_data), using the typed tool name as the operation. On the default surface, run it with ireland_call, for example:

{ "source": "cso", "operation": "cso_get_data", "args": { "table_code": "ROA15", "filters": { "TLIST(A1)": ["2023", "2024"] } } }

If an argument shape is unclear, call ireland_describe with { "source", "operation" } first; it returns the schema and an example. search, fetch and nearby are top-level tools. If the server was added with ?toolsets=<ids> or ?toolsets=all, the typed tool can be called directly with the same args.

Tables

Confirm a table is current with cso/cso_search_tables ("road deaths", "recorded crime") if a call fails.

Steps

1. Get codes. Call cso/cso_get_table_metadata with { "table_code": "ROA15" } (or the crime table). Note the dimension codes (e.g. "C03867V04617" County, "C02481V03160" Garda Division) and the category code for each place, offence and period.
2. Fetch. Call cso/cso_get_data with filters for every dimension you need, e.g. ROA15 { "TLIST(A1)": ["2023","2024"], "C03867V04617": ["<county code>"] }. Keep results under 500 rows. For crime, filter TLIST(Q1) (codes like "20251") and the Garda Division; pick headline offence groups (two-digit category codes such as "01"; their labels end in "(01)") rather than every sub-offence. Prefer CJQ10 for recent quarters.
3. Rates (optional). Divide by population from cso/cso_area_profile (county) and show per 100,000 with the census year. Garda divisions do not match counties exactly; say so.
4. Compare periods. Use full years or the same quarters year on year; quarterly crime is seasonal.
5. Null values mean not yet published; never treat them as zero.

Output format

Illustrative layout; the values are examples, not data.

## Road casualties, Co. Galway
| Year | Killed | Injured | Killed per 100k (Census 2022) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12 | 391 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | not yet published | 1.8 |
Sources
- Road Safety Authority, table ROA15 via CSO PxStat (CC BY 4.0), retrieved <date>

Rules

• Follow ../_shared/citations.md.
• Recorded-crime figures can be revised, and fraud (offence group 09) figures before and after 2023Q3 are not comparable; say so when either applies.
• Recorded crime reflects reporting and recording, not all crime. Small counts swing year to year.
• No safety advice, no area labels like "dangerous", and no claims about causes.