A Dublin Councillor says she and her husband were "violently attacked" while hanging election posters last week.
Independent candidate Tania Doyle is running for re-election to Fingal County Council in the upcoming local elections.
She said herself and her team were out early last Wednesday morning when the incident happened.
Cllr Doyle told Newstalk Breakfast they were on a main road in Ongar.
"It happened roughly about 1.15am on Wednesday May 8th," she said.
"You're given the go-ahead to put up your posters a minute after 12am... and I had a couple of teams out in the Ongar area.
"I was elected in 2019; I'm Independent by the way - so I'm not part of any Government party.
"We were finishing up and my team went home, everybody was tired".
'We had a bit of dialogue'Cllr Doyle said her husband was elsewhere hanging up posters before coming back to her and her colleague.
"We were just tidying up posters... and basically two men came along and we had a bit of dialogue with them," she said.
"Everything seemed fine, everything seemed OK.
"I was previously talking to a couple of women that passed by [who] wished me the best of luck.
"[The two men] started talking to me... I got the feeling they didn't know who I was.
"They basically said, 'Let's have a look at those posters, who are you, what are you doing?'"
'They demanded my views'Cllr Doyle explained she is running in the local elections as an Independent and that a conversation started.
The men asked her views on a number of issues and Cllr Doyle said she told the men "I'm local government, this is a local election".
She said the situation began to change.
"They demanded my views on immigration, basically, and once I heard that I kind of went 'Oh God'" she said.
"I could feel the agitation immediately... I just said, 'Oh listen it's late, let's not get into this I'm heading home'.
"And it was 'No, no, no' - this party's doing this, that party's doing that".
Cllr Doyle said they were then "violently attacked".
"I said to them I believe in lawful, measured and appropriate immigration with the background infrastureutre to cope," she said.
"They didn't like the answer and they started screaming at me," she added.
Cllr Doyle said the men also began videoing the confrontation.
Main image: Cllr Tania Doyle
