Eason removes 'Dubliner' from the shelves

Eason has announced that it is to remove all copies of the current issue of the Dublinermagazine which published faked pictures of Tiger Woods' wife.

Today's decision was made out of "respect for our customers and US visitors who, understandably, are offended by the contents" of the article, the company said in a statement.

The magazine was forced into an apology yesterday after publishing what it described as a 'satirical' article that alleged Elin Nordegren had appeared on numerous pornographic websites.

A picture of Ms Nordegren which accompanied the article was merely her head super-imposed on to another woman's body.

"We've had phone calls all afternoon from lots of customers," Martin Black, General Manager of Eason on O'Connell Street told ireland.com this evening. "A lot of them were expressing outrage at the magazine.

"They were all saying 'you know the Ryder Cup is on at the moment ... and the international media is concentrating on the story in the Dublinermagazine and that's the message that is going out over a lot of America'."

Mr Black added that it was a steady stream of callers expressing a "genuine outrage" and said that the decision of censorship was not one that the company took "lightly".

Yesterday Tiger Woods responded to the publication of the article saying: "I am very disappointed in how the article was written. Yes, my wife has been a model and she did do some bikini photos, but to link her to porn websites is unacceptable. I do not accept it."

"My wife is an extension of me," he continued. "We're in it together. We're a team, and I care about her with all my heart."

Eason are hopeful that the decision to take the magazine of the shelves will not adversely affect their relationship with the magazine, which sells 9,000 copies per month.

"We would hope not," said Mr Black. "But I think that in a situation like this you have to listen to what the customer says and in this case, you can sense that it is genuine."

Eason said that that magazine was not selling more copies than usual.