A local TD says social media companies need to take more responsibility when it comes to 'keyboard warriors'.
This follows the gun threat towards Sinn Fein's Martin Kenny's Leinster House office yesterday, which his party colleague Pauline Tully says she totally condemns.
She says a lot of this abuse begins online, and while social media can have positives it needs greater regulation.
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Deputy Tully says threats of this kind have to be reported and taken more seriously: