OUTRAGE AT UK'S 'THE TELEGRAPH' OVER FAKE STORY RIDICULING CONNEMARA

Date Published: 29-Nov-2011

A Connemara Councillor is seeking a full public apology from the UK's The Telegraph Newspaper after it published a fake story on its website which ridiculed Galway

The respected English broadsheet this week published the article 'Councillor thought cloud computing depended on rainy weather'

The article describes how a Councillor Seamus Tiernan told an infrastructure meeting that his native Connemara would be ideal for cloud computing because it has heavy cloud for nine months of the year

It goes on to say that the meeting descended into a foul-mouthed slanging match with another Galway councillor Martin Shiels branding the other a 'feckin eejit'

The article is wrong in that in the Connemara electoral area, there are no elected councillors of these names and no infrastucture committee exists

The article was published on the technology section of the Telegraph website, which gets thousands of hits

It was also tweeted by the TelegraphTech which has 15 thousand followers

Galway Bay fm news contacted the Telegraph by email, tweet and phone and was told they were very busy and could not deal with this issue at present

There was also no explanation as to how such a fabricated piece made it onto the website

The article was taken down after Galway Bay fm news contacted The Telegraph

Connemara Councillor Thomas Welby says the Telegraph has a lot to answer for