More than 100 domestic abuse incidents are now being reported across the country every day.
The figures - reported in the Irish Mail on Sunday - show over 2,000 of them were in the South East this year.
The figures show there was a total of 24,686 reported incidents of domestic abuse in the first nine months of the year.
653 of them were in Waterford, the highest in the South East.
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It's followed by 649 in Tipperary, 546 in Carlow and Kilkenny and 498 in Wexford.
According to the Irish Mail on Sunday Ireland is now dealing with a domestic abuse epidemic.
The figures were confirmed by the Department of Justice following a parliamentary question by the TD Michael McNamara.
