This is true!

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, so mods feel free to tell me off/move/delete thread!

After having dug to a depth of 10 metres last year, Scottish scientists
found traces of copper wire
dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors
already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.



Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, English
scientists dug to a depth of 20 metres,
and shortly after, headlines in the UK newspapers read: 'English
archaeologists have found traces of 200 year
old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an
advanced high-tech communications
network a hundred years earlier than the Scots.'



One week later, The Kerryman, a southwest Irish newsletter, reported the
following:
'After digging as deep as 30 metres in peat bog near Tralee, Paddy
O'Droll, a self taught archaeologist,
reported that he found absolutely nothing. Paddy has therefore concluded
that 300 years ago Ireland
had already gone wireless.