Sinn Féin TDs warn Roscommon incident ‘only the start of it’

Flanagan warns against ‘thinly veiled references to vigilantism’ online

The scene at the house in Strokestown, Co Roscommon which was the centre of an eviction.  Photograph: Peter Murtagh

The scene at the house in Strokestown, Co Roscommon which was the centre of an eviction. Photograph: Peter Murtagh

Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has warned that vigilantism “is a very dangerous road to go down” as he answered Dáil questions about the recent violence over an eviction in Co Roscommon.

He was deeply disturbed by “thinly veiled references to vigilantism” made on social media in the wake of the violence at Falsk, near Strokestown, and warned that it would not be tolerated in Ireland.

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