Irish Examiner view: Threat to social workers is unacceptable

Tusla CEO Bernard Gloster told an Oireachtas committee of the “increasing threats and intimidation of individual staff” from what he said was a relatively small cohort of people. Photo: Larry Cummins. 

Even if anger is increasingly the disposition of the day, the emotion is unacceptable in the vast majority of cases, especially when conscientious service providers try to help those in need of their services.

Today’s report showing that some Tusla staff have received death threats, others have had photographs of their children and offensive commentary published online, and that one worker’s holiday details were posted online in an effort to intimidate them, shows how far this indulgence has gone.