A gay married couple were targeted by a gang of eight men as they walked down a busy street in Dublin's city centre last night.
The two men claimed they were subject to verbal abuse and harassment by the gang while over 50 bystanders witnessed the incident.
They said they were holding hands and "minding their own business" as they walked down Eustace Street in Temple Bar.
One of the men told Dublin Live that the gang were hanging outside their cars when they began to laugh at the couple.
He said the group then got into their cars and "slowly crawled the entire way down the street hurling abuse" while recording the couple on their phones.
The couple crossed onto the Millennium Bridge over the River Liffey and the gang "ran out of their cars and squared up" to the two men.
The couple were then targeted with threats such as "we have yous (sic) on camera" and "we will go after your family".
When the couple told the group that they had rung gardai, they "ran back to their cars shouting abuse".
One of the men targeted said that around 50 people witnessed the incident and "stood and just listened".
He called the gang's behaviour "disgusting" and said: "I may have responded in ways that riled them up but I couldn’t stay quiet while we were being abused so openly in front of people."
Dublin Live has contacted An Garda Siochana for comment.
