Ireland’s T\u00e1naiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Harris has described threats against his family as “cowardice”.<\/p>\n
The threat was posted on social media on Sunday morning, RT\u00c9 has reported.<\/p>\n
“As a father, I have very strong views and feelings on this as you can imagine. As a political leader, I find it unacceptable in every way,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na (Irish police service) has confirmed it is investigating.<\/p>\n
The Fine Gael leader’s statement continued: “Let me be clear: threatening people – any person – is a crime. <\/p>\n
“Threatening children is despicable. It is cowardice and it is a line that no decent society should tolerate being crossed.”<\/p>\n
Writing on social media, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Miche\u00e1l Martin said he “unreservedly” condemned the “abhorrent threats” made against Harris and his family.<\/p>\n
“Such threats to people in public life are unacceptable. They are a fundamental threat to our democracy,” Martin added.<\/p>\n
In August 2024 a man was arrested over online threats made against Harris.<\/p>\n
It followed a bomb threat<\/a> made against the Fine Gael leader’s home and a threat, mentioning knives, which was made on Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s T\u00e1naiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Harris has described threats against his family as “cowardice”. The threat was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-389043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}