The youngest TD in Dail Eireann told the Sunday Tribune it is "really weird" that her website has been targeted by hackers who have also posted advertisements for Native American Indian films, an Indian tribe in Oklahoma and even "heroes of Grand Prix".

The website has been offline for the last three weeks while it was undergoing upgrading but it reappeared last Friday extolling the virtues of Gluskabe, a mythical figure worshipped by the Abenaki tribe.

Gluskabe is said to have created the first humans from the mud at the banks of the Penobscot River in the north American state of Maine.

A lengthy story entitled 'Gluskabe Changes Maple Syrup . . . An Abenaki Legend', is reproduced in full on www. lucindacreighton. ie.

It tells of how The Creator sent Gluskabe to a village where the people were feasting so much on maple syrup from trees that they were getting fat and lazy and no work was being done.

Gluskabe and The Creator decide to teach the people a lesson by making it harder to get the syrup from the trees, which would only yield it up once a year.

Anybody logging on to the 27-year-old's website in recent days may have been wondering if she had found God, but Creighton insists that she hasn't suddenly developed a new, more spiritual side.

The Gluskabe story is the only content currently on her website.

"No, I haven't found God, " she joked. "The website has been down for two or three weeks while some work is being carried out on it. I logged on a few days ago to see if the site was back up but it wasn't.

"I don't know what these posts are about. It's really weird and I will be investigating to find out what happened, " she added.