Churchmen, community leaders and politicians in north Belfast yesterday (Thursday) demanded an end to dissident republican death threats against Sinn Féin councillor Breige Meehan.
More than 100 people attended a public meeting in the Ardoyne area yesterday to condemn a recent campaign of intimidation against Breige Meehan, whose husband Martin died from a heart attack last month.
The couple had both received a number of death threats in the weeks before the veteran republican's death.
Mr Meehan had been searching the area outside his home after a bomb hoax just before he died.
However, since her husband's death Mrs Meehan has continued to be targeted, with two hoax bomb alerts at her home earlier this week.
Ardoyne priest Fr Aidan Troy called for an immediate end to the threats.
"I think it's particularly disgusting that a woman, who has just lost her husband, is being targeted in this way," he said.
"I don't know what these people think they are achieving by putting a grieving grandmother through such pain but I can tell them that they don't have the support of this community.
"These attacks must stop now."
Sinn Féin assembly member Gerry Kelly said there was anger within the community that Mrs Meehan was being targeted.
"There have been scores of these death threats against Breige Meehan and other republicans in recent months," he said.
"It's ironic that someone who endured a lifetime of harassment and intimidation at the hands of the British and loyalists is now being targeted by a micro-group which has absolutely no support within this community."
