Garda\u00ed are investigating a second threat made against T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris\u2019s family in the space of a week.<\/p>\n
The incident comes after a woman was arrested and released from garda custody when a threat was made against the Fine Gael leader\u2019s children.<\/p>\n
Mr Harris, who is minister for foreign affairs and defence, has received threats before \u2013 including through social media and a phoned bomb threat.<\/p>\n
Protests have also been held outside his home, where his wife and children live.<\/p>\n
Asked about a fresh threat against Mr Harris\u2019s family, a spokeswoman said: \u201cAn Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na does not comment on named individuals. A Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is currently investigating this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Harris said during the week that he would no longer maintain \u201ca dignified silence\u201d on the issue of threats against politicians and public representatives.<\/p>\n
He said threats against politicians had become \u201csomewhat normalised\u201d and it should not be accepted that the online space was \u201cthe Wild West\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you experience direct threats to your children, to their safety, it\u2019s something I wouldn\u2019t wish on anybody in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fear one day we will wake up in this country and something will have gone wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has to be taken extraordinarily seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating a second threat made against T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris\u2019s family in the space of a week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-5055","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\/5055","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=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}