{"id":35481,"date":"2025-08-31T23:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35481\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:52:08","slug":"investigation-launched-after-online-threat-against-simon-harris-and-family-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35481\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation launched after online threat against Simon Harris and family \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are investigating a threat made against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/simon-harris\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/simon-harris\">Simon Harris<\/a> and his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It has been reported that the threat was made on social media at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">T\u00e1naiste and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fine-gael\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fine-gael\">Fine Gael<\/a> leader Mr Harris has received threats before, including through social media and a phoned bomb threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Protests have also been held outside his home where his wife and children live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Harris has previously said he will not be deterred from doing his job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Asked about the latest threat, a garda spokesperson said: \u201cAn Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is currently investigating this matter.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In August last year garda\u00ed investigated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2024\/08\/06\/gardai-investigate-sinister-instagram-threats-made-to-taoiseach-and-his-family\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2024\/08\/06\/gardai-investigate-sinister-instagram-threats-made-to-taoiseach-and-his-family\/\">threats made to Mr Harris and his family on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The threats on Instagram were described as \u201cespecially sinister\u201d as they contained references to Mr Harris and his family, and to a weapon and extreme violence. \u2013 Additional reporting: PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating a threat made against Simon Harris and his family. It has been reported that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,7335,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-35481","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-irish-politics","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35481","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=35481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}