Waging war on sporting trolls

“Shame Ruby Walsh did not break both legs.”

That was one of the more printable outbursts in an undistinguished few days for the Twitter fraternity.

The online trolls circled Ruby after his broken leg at Punchestown on Saturday, some of them still fuming over his contributions to Ireland’s Greatest Sporting Moment on RTÉ 2 last week, when he suggested the nomination of World Cup ’94 was a celebration of mediocrity. While others nursed gripes over horses he had ridden and beaten dockets.