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ANONYMOUS CARDS and secret admirers may have been an integral part of St Valentines Day for years in Ireland, but it seems there is no place for them in modern technology.

Tech giant Apple has thwarted plans to bring romance into the lives of the shyest iPhone owners by rejecting an application that allowed them to send anonymous e-cards to potential Valentines.