Green Party councillor attacked while hanging posters in Dublin

Janet Horner was putting up election posters on North Circular Road when attacked on same day as assault on Independent councillor and husband in Hartstowncouncillor has told of how she was hit and threatened while out canvassing and hanging posters in Dublin for the forthcoming local elections., said she was canvassing on the North Circular Road last week when she was approached by an irate man who threw her posters across the road and lunged at her when she tried to stop him.

“He was in that state of mind, I knew he was willing to hurt us. He grabbed the poster then and threw it onto the road, and then someone he knew came along. I was too panicked to hear what they were saying to each other because in that moment I was terrified. I thought we were going to be outnumbered.”

Independent councillor Tania Doyle said she feared that she and her husband would be killed in the violent, unprovoked attack which took place in Hartstown, Dublin, on the same day Ms Horner was attacked.

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