Politics.ie owner and operator David Cochrane received a letter from Frank Ward & Company, solicitors representing Bertie asking for the full disclosure on a number of users who contributed to a discussion entitled Grainne Carruth and Frank Ward on the site. The post apparently contained, according to Cochrane:

…allegations about a Tribunal witness and a firm of solicitors, those comments were inaccurate, untrue and were malicious…

The full text of the letter from Frank Ward & Company is available here.

The owner moved quickly, and Politics.ie is now hosted in the United States.

One of the users who’s details have been requested by Frank Ward & Company has a post up at his blog about the issue.

IrishElection.com have a large piece up about it.

Damien Mulley has a post about it too.