Starve the trolls, Maura, and they’ll wither up and die
NASTY online criticism about her clothes and make-up has prompted TV presenter Maura Derrane to encourage the public not to become keyboard warriors, warning that negative comments can ‘genuinely upset people’. Let’s hope Maura’s sincerity will dissuade the so-called ‘trolls’ from their witch-hunts – but perhaps a better ploy might be to starve them of the oxygen of publicity and ignore them completely.