Roderic O’Gorman 'still facing threats and social media abuse'

'I never got homophobic abuse until I was 39, a minister, and there’s a gang outside Leinster House with a noose," says Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman.

Roderic O’Gorman: 'There’s still a lot of abuse online. Anytime I regularly put up a post on anything, it could be the most innocuous thing, you get an avalanche of it on migration, on homophobic stuff.' Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman has admitted he is still facing abuse a year after leaving government, including homophobic slurs at train stations.

In an interview with the Irish Examiner, he also hit out at his former coalition colleagues and former housing minister Darragh O’Brien, claiming he “wanted nothing to do” with helping to house asylum seekers and refugees.