{"id":39656,"date":"2025-09-02T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39656\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:28:07","slug":"woman-30s-arrested-in-connection-with-threat-to-kidnap-tanaiste-simon-harriss-children-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39656\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (30s) arrested in connection with threat to kidnap T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris\u2019s children \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman has been arrested in Dublin in connection with a threat to kidnap the children of T\u00e1naiste <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>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman, aged in her 30s, was arrested on Tuesday at a house in west Dublin by investigating garda\u00ed from Ronanstown. The investigation was supported by counter extremism garda\u00ed from the Special Detective Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She is currently being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The threats were made on social media over the weekend and explicitly targeted Mr Harris\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement on Monday, the <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 said as a father he had \u201cvery strong views and feelings\u201d on the issue, while as a political leader he found it \u201cunacceptable in every way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cLet me be clear: threatening people \u2013 any person \u2013 is a crime,\u201d he said. \u201cThreatening children is despicable. It is cowardice and it is a line that no decent society should tolerate being crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Taoiseach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/micheal-martin\/\">Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a> said threats to people in public life are unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI condemn unreservedly the abhorrent threats made to T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris and his family. Such threats to people in public life are unacceptable,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are a fundamental threat to our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Fine Gael leader 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 the house in Co Wicklow where he lives with his wife and children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In June 2024, an anonymous caller rang a Samaritans helpline and claimed there was an explosive device at the Harris family home. The alarm was immediately raised by the organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested in Dublin in connection with a threat to kidnap the children of T\u00e1naiste&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,8030,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5765,5,44,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-39656","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-garda-siochana","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-micheal-martin","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-simon-harris","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39656","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=39656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}