Artist directed to remove tweet

A Kerryman has obtained a temporary court order directing artist Kevin Sharkey to remove an allegedly "highly defamatory" comment he wrote on his Twitter account.

Barrister Karl Sweeney told the Circuit Civil Court that Garrett O’Mahony had been called a racist after he replied to a tweet written on Mr Sharkey’s account on April 23 last.

In an affidavit Mr O’Mahony, of Gortnadallagh, Kenmare, Co Kerry, stated that on April 23 last he replied to a comment posted on Mr Sharkey’s Twitteraccount about a picture published on the front page of a daily newspaper.