IT’S been impossible not to have been drawn into the Seven-Days Wonder that has been the Kings Dolly affair this week, and the last thing anyone wants is another article dragging the issue out, especially with the Turf Club due to put a lid on the matter this weekend. In saying that, it’s been something of an education watching how the issue has been brought to light, and given a life of its own through the medium of social media – and when we say social media, we really mean Twitter.

What’s also been interesting from my standpoint is how few of those who have tackled the subject in print or television media have done so without doing so through the prism of Twitter, looking to leaven any condemnation of the incident with a balancing comment on the extreme opinions expressed on the internet platform. For me, this has been the most enlightening, and at the same time, distorting aspect of the whole sorry saga.