Half of emails Harris received over Kanturk incident were supportive

Tánaiste Simon Harris received a barrage of emails after a viral incident where he was confronted by a carer in Kanturk during the election campaign.

However, at least half of the correspondence sent to the Department of the Taoiseach supported him with some people saying it had been “overblown”.

Others took issue with how Mr Harris handled the incident with one saying the Fine Gael leader had “dug [his] own grave” during the encounter.

One carer wrote of how they had admired the Taoiseach but had changed the way they intended to vote because of the video.

They said: “[All it needed was] a quiet moment listening to that lady, looking in her eyes and saying, ‘I care’.

“I think you mistook her tone for something perhaps akin to grievance. I didn’t. Because I heard her.”

Another wrote of how the incident had been “blown out of all proportion” trying to claim the Taoiseach had been set up.

Their email said: “Most people with a jot of sense will see the incident…

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