Down wid da kidz ..,.

… in da hood.

I have heard of Twitter, which I understand to be a sort of news service for folk whose attention span is less than that required to read more than a single paragraph of prose. I understand too that some of those enjoying short-term fame use Twitter to publish their, er, thoughts to the world.

It is therefore relatively surprising to find that respectable organisations use it, albeit to publicise their less significant activities, as with this use by Waterways Ireland. WI may have assumed that association with the government of Ireland would lend respectability to their Tweetage, but if so they were, I fear, mistaken.