If you are a consumer of the Irish news media and have paid any attention over the past fortnight or so, you will have heard about tattle dot life. It may be the first time you had ever heard of tattle dot life, because most normal people do not spend their time on online gossip boards speculating about the marriages, diets, or extra-marital activities of minor celebrities. But it turns out that those minor celebrities pay a whole lot of attention.
As a friend of mine noted drily during the week: “It turns out a couple I had never heard of sued a website I had never heard of, which turned out to be owned by a businessman I had never heard of, and suddenly it’s news everywhere”.
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