{"id":143345,"date":"2025-10-24T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143345\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:30:12","slug":"garda-probe-after-mary-lou-mcdonald-and-canvassers-threatened-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143345\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda probe after Mary Lou McDonald and canvassers threatened in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed are investigating an incident where two women were allegedly assaulted by a man during a canvass in north inner city Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Video circulating on social media shows a man repeatedly threatening and verbally abusing Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald and a group of canvassers for Independent <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/presidential-election-2025\/\">presidential election<\/a> candidate Catherine Connolly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In it, the man repeatedly threatens to hit Ms McDonald and several others involved in the canvass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed confirmed they responded to a report of assault on two women on the North Strand Road in Dublin 1. They said the incident occurred shortly before 4pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One young woman was taken to hospital for a medical examination following the incident. It is understood that Ms McDonald is not one of the women who was assaulted during the canvass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/presidential-election-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px; width:100%; height:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4823610_1_org_640x150_banner_election_large.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed have appealed for anyone with information or with camera footage of the incident to contact Store Street Garda Station on 01 666 8000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A spokesman for Sinn F\u00e9in said: \u201cA man assaulted a young woman who was part of a team getting out the vote near the Five Lamps in the north inner city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe garda\u00ed were called and are now investigating the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe woman has been brought to hospital for medical examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThis happened as Mary Lou McDonald joined the canvass team, which is now continuing with its work of getting the vote out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating an incident where two women were allegedly assaulted by a man during a canvass in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-143345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-presidential-election","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115430806432359698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}