DJ NIKKI TARGETS WEB HAYTE MOB

0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Jun 21, 2009 | by NAOMI McELROY

FURIOUS 2fm DJ Nikki Hayes is threatening to sue a website where vicious cyber bullies launched a hate campaign against her.

Nikki, 30, was branded an annoying, attention-seeker on boards.ie, the most popular chat forum in Ireland.

But the gorgeous blonde voweS d to strike back. She said: "Enough is enough. It stops now. I'm fed up with hate campaigns on so- called reputable sites."

The web slurs, under the heading "How annoying is Nikki Hayes?" even claimed she lies and pretends to be single, just to get men to tune in to her radio show.

One poster wrote: "Is it just me, or does Nikki Hayes annoy the jebus out of you?" Another said: "Totally agree. Can't listen to the woman. Her voice - aaagh!! NO ONE is that happy. Shut up, shut up, shut up."

And one crude comment said: "No wonder RTE is in the $h***er."

Nikki first learned about the filthy internet tirade on Monday, but despite asking boards.ie to stop the bullying, all they did was lock the thread.

This means no-one else can coment - but the malicious lies are still on the website for all to see.

A source close to Nikki said: "Nikki was really shocked when she read them and contacted boards.ie to tell them that if the comments weren't taken down in the next 24 hours she would sue for defamation.

"She has no problem with people going online to say they don't like her show or that she isn't a good presenter but she draws the line at people spreading lies about her which other people are going to log on and believe are true. The stuff that turned up on boards.ie is vulgar and sick."

Nikki, real name Eimear O'Keefe, opened her heart about the evil cyber attack on her bebo page.

She said: "I really don't think I'll ever become immune to the uneducated hate posts online, or to the fact that websites that like to call themselves 'reputable' allow these posts to be published, allowing idiots who have such little going on in their own lives that all they can do day and night is say how much they hate everything and everyone online.

"I think there would be less bullying and depression and a lot less suicides if the people who start these venomous attacks were tracked via IP address, arrested (I don't they'd be so vocal when the gardai turn up) and they should be shown the full weight of the law ... I for one would back this a million per cent."