Man in park threatened ‘I’ll effing kill you’, Green Party leader says

Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman has said a man threatened to kill him while he was having coffee with his husband, adding that he no longer looks at online abuse directed towards him.

He said he has repeatedly been called a paedophile or a groomer online while also facing other homophobic abuse.

His comments come after an entirely separate incident in which a man has since pleaded guilty through his solicitor to assaulting Mr O’Gorman while he was on an election canvass on Saturday.

In a pre-election broadcast interview on Wednesday, the Green Party leader said he was conscious that it was entirely legitimate for him to face robust scrutiny, criticism and accountability as an elected representative.

However, while not referring to the incident on Saturday, he raised concern over abuse of politicians being “normalised”.

Asked if he believed he became a target for abuse early in the lifetime of the Government due to homophobia, Mr O’Gorman said: “Yeah, to be…

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