Fawning approaches to Kevin Myers do no favours

In a personal response to the Kevin Myers controversy, Joe Leogue criticises how mutual appreciation within an industry allowed that writer and others to get away with bileful commentary.

On BBC Radio London on Monday, Vanessa Feltz questioned how something “so blatantly racist” as Kevin Myers’ Sunday Times column could make it to print.

Ms Feltz need only have listened to the fawning interview that RTÉ’s Sean O’Rourke afforded Myers on Tuesday for her answer.