Gardai were called on Thursday after reports that up to 12 masked men were staging a protest, some with anti-migration placards and banners, outside the property
Threats against elected representatives will undermine “essential qualities of Irish democracy”, Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman said, after a protest outside his home.
On Friday Mr O’Gorman said: “I want to thank local gardai in Blanchardstown for their assistance yesterday. “I know that the gardai have to assess each of these situations, and as Taoiseach I don’t wish to interfere in that, however, I feel deeply uncomfortable that the situation was allowed to develop outside the home of any person quite frankly, public figure or otherwise, government or opposition, and I hope in due course to have an opportunity to discuss this with gardai.”
“I think that is chilling in a democracy. I think it is worrying, I think it is disturbing,” he said.
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