Two women who were canvassing in support of Catherine Connolly in north Dublin have allegedly been assaulted.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred as Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald joined the canvass, a party spokesman said.<\/p>\n
A video posted online shows a man approaching a canvass team for Ms Connolly and shouting threats to “deck” and “slap” some of them.<\/p>\n
It was reported to garda\u00ed that two females were assaulted on North Strand Road in Dublin shortly before 4pm this evening.<\/p>\n
They did not require medical treatment at the scene but garda\u00ed said they understand one of the females has since attended the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital for further assessment.<\/p>\n
They have appealed to anyone with camera footage of the incident to provide it to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for Sinn F\u00e9in said: “A 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
“The garda\u00ed were called and are now investigating the matter.<\/p>\n
“The woman has been brought to hospital for medical examination.<\/p>\n
“This happened as Mary Lou McDonald joined the canvass team, which is now continuing with its work of getting the vote out.”<\/p>\n
An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na has appealed to anyone with information or camera footage in relation to the incident to contact Store Street Garda station on 01 666 8000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women who were canvassing in support of Catherine Connolly in north Dublin have allegedly been assaulted. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-102047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}