We approached the 40-year-old at a property in west Dublin on Thursday where she feigned complete ignorance when asked about her arrest and interrogation by officers from by An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na\u2019s counter-terror unit.<\/p>\n
When it was put to her by our reporter that she had been interviewed in relation to the threats, she responded: \u201cWhat? Me? No! Jesus! Definitely not!\u201d<\/p>\n
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Tanaiste Simon Harris<\/p>\n
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She then stepped back inside the property and closed the door.<\/p>\n
The woman is active on social media but shows no notable interest in issues relating to the far right.<\/p>\n
A source said: \u201cIt\u2019s worrying that seemingly normal people are being associated with making as serious a threat as this one online.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exceedingly concerning as normally this level of animosity is something we\u2019d associate with extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman was arrested in west Dublin on Tuesday afternoon by garda\u00ed probing the threats which referenced kidnapping Simon Harris\u2019s children.<\/p>\n
She was held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a garda station in Dublin.<\/p>\n
She had been identified as part of the inquiry after garda\u00ed secured information on the social media account used to post the messages.<\/p>\n
Posted on a Meta \u00adsocial media platform over the weekend, the messages warned that the T\u00e1naiste\u2019s children would be kidnapped and violence carried out against them.<\/p>\n
Investigators from the Special Detective Unit (SDU), which oversees issues relating to national security and violent political extremism, were probing the matter.<\/p>\n
A security source said that the incident involved threats to kidnap his children and to carry out acts of violence against them.<\/p>\n
The SDU is being assisted in the inquiry by local garda\u00ed and specialist detectives attached to the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau.<\/p>\n
It is the latest threat to the safety of the Fine Gael leader and his family over the last year, with previous incidents including a bomb threat being called into his family home; masked men gathering outside the property; and threats of violence being made against his wife and children.<\/p>\n
Garda headquarters was made aware of the most recent threat on Saturday lastafter several messages were posted online that made specific reference to Mr Harris\u2019s children<\/p>\n
The SDU has also been made aware in recent days of the T\u00e1naiste\u2019s home address being circulated among far-right actors on online platforms.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Meta told the Sunday World it does \u201cnot allow threats of violence on our platforms\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remove content and accounts that break our rules, as we have done in this case, and are continuing to work closely with law enforcement,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
In such cases, the company works with law enforcement where they believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety.<\/p>\n
Garda headquarters confirmed that an investigation into the matter is ongoing.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued earlier this week, the T\u00e1naiste said: \u201cThis weekend, I received direct threats targeting my family.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a father, I have very strong views and feelings on this, as you can imagine.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a political leader, I find it unacceptable in every way. Let me be clear: threatening people \u2013 any person \u2013 is a crime. Threatening children is despicable. It is cowardice and it is a line that no decent society should tolerate being crossed. I will not be commenting further at this time on any ongoing garda investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We approached the 40-year-old at a property in west Dublin on Thursday where she feigned complete ignorance when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","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=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}