Sign of the times – anti-McGinley scrawls on a road sign
GARDAI are stepping up security around Junior Minister and Donegal Fine Gael TD Dinny McGinley after a number of ‘sinister’ threats were made.
The campaign of intimidation against Deputy McGinley has intensified in recent weeks.
Anti-government messages have been daubed on roads, signs and gables in several areas of west Donegal.
Some of them have been personalised against the TD like in the one pictured above.
However more sinister threats have also been made in other comments painted onto the roads around Gaoth Dobhair.
Garda sources say patrols have been stepped up in and around his constituency offices as a result.
Party sources have said the Minister is unfazed by the threats and ‘determined’ to continue his work.
However one party colleague told Donegal Daily: “The people behind this are completely misguided. Writing threats and insults in paint isn’t going to get this country up off its knees.
“As for the household tax, it’s here and it isn’t going to go away. Everyone will have to pay it and threatening a TD isn’t going to change that.”