Irish get ugly online

A recent libel dispute from the Emerald Isle has come to light, and it is the first case of net libel ever in Ireland - and what a cut-throat case it is. Francis Kenny and Maureen Walker are rival sandwich makers in Castlerea. The food business is a

A recent libel dispute from the Emerald Isle has come to light, and it is the first case of net libel ever in Ireland - and what a cut-throat case it is. Francis Kenny and Maureen Walker are rival sandwich makers in Castlerea. The food business is a nasty little arena, and it has never been more brutal. Kenny listed Walker's name on a prostitution Web site, and within days Walker was receiving hundreds of phone calls that nothing to do with tuna and mayo on white.

Police established a link between the two whitebread mafioso, and subsequent charges were laid. Kenny's sandwich business has now shut down, and Walker has received, not dirty phone calls, but damages to the tune of $11,000.

There are millions of weird-ass stories on the Internet. This has been one of them.