Fine Gael election candidate’s constituency office vandalised

Senator Colm Burke had a brick thrown through the window of his constituency office in Cork on Sunday evening, the politician has said.

The Fine Gael general election candidate for the Cork North-Central constituency says he returned to his office in Blackpool on Sunday night to find two window panes had been smashed with a brick.

He added that the incident has come after hundreds of his election posters were removed without his permission.

In a post on Twitter, the senator said: “Bricks fired through the window in my office in Blackpool this evening. It has been a difficult few days with over 250 posters taken down and illegally removed.”

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Mr Burke added that despite the vandalism, he would continue in his campaign for election.

“No candidate or their staff should have to face this, but my campaign and I won’t be intimidated or deterred,” he said.

Mr Burke is the party's Seanad spokesman on health and was a member of the European Parliament for the Ireland South constituency between 2007 and 2009.