People sometimes ask me where I get the ideas for my columns, and by people I mean one person ever.

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.

Kevin Myers has apologised for the anti-semitic remark that saw him sacked as a columnist from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times.

IT has always struck me as a bit unseemly when people in the same profession go for each other in print or online. So I never have.