The scheduling of controversial columnist Kevin Myers as a moderator at a talk on censorship in Limerick strikes as a “provocative, calculated” move by the organisers, a professor at the University of Limerick has said.

Irish women should be grateful to Kevin Myers for highlighting the misogynistic crap that has passed off for so long as legitimate commentary, writes Alison O'Connor.

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.

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They decided to devote it all - all of the resources they inherited - to buying every election they possibly could, writes Fergus Finlay

The Irish Press Council has received 35 complaints about the controversial Kevin Myers article.

BBC presenter Vanessa Feltz has described a Sunday Times column written by Kevin Myers as "horrifying racism".

Sunday Times Ireland columnist Kevin Myers will not write again for the paper, a spokesman said.

From deployment in The Congo in the 1960s to present day operations in the Golan Heights Irish soldiers have found themselves in combat situations. Ryle Dwyer reads Dan Harvey’s book on our Blue Berets.

EARLY every morning Tracy Piggott climbs onto her horse and rides out across the flat, lush plains of Co Kildare.

We still don’t know what the government really intend to do to honour the 1916 centenary but Sinn Féin has announced it will be putting on a musical version of the 1916 Rising.

Abba outfits all about money, money, money

The Press Ombudsman has upheld a complaint against the Irish Independent for breaching the code of practice for Newspapers and Magazines.

President Michael D. Higgins attended his first official ceremony as Uachtaráin na hÉireann this afternoon.

Michael D Higgins will attend his first official engagement today as the country's new President.

WHAT possessed the organisers of the Liam Lynch Commemoration to allow Eoghan Harris give the oration?

I WAS severely taken to task by a Mr Matt Harper, in a letter to the editor, over the article I wrote here last week.

IN his article on the London riots Fergus Finlay (Opinion, August 16) makes accusations against other ‘opinion formers’, John Waters and Kevin Myers, that could more accurately be directed against Mr Finlay himself.

MY esteemed colleague Terry Prone made the point in this space yesterday that the hardest question to answer, in the face of the riots that engulfed Britain last week, is why.

A former IRA commander involved in the ambush and killing of two senior RUC officers has been questioned by a tribunal probing allegations of garda collusion in the murders.

THE Rape Crisis Network has criticised columnist Kevin Myers for comments he made describing date rape as less harmful than other forms of rape.

FOLLOWING the publication of my book, Haughey’s Forty Years of Controversy, I was invited on the late Gerry Ryan’s radio programme. I assumed the interview would be for about 12 minutes. I had done a couple of other interviews with him previously about Éamon de Valera, but we were in separate studios for each of those and had never actually met before.

LISTENING to some of the teachers and the union representatives moaning during the week one could be tempted to suggest that what we need is to bring back corporal punishment and flog those teachers.

SOME three in 10 incidents of racism reported to the NCCRI in the past six months were against children, according to a new report.

Richard Collins reviews a book on climate change

LIKE most Irishmen and women, I left home at a very early age.

A YOUNG skateboarder who rolled out in front of a passing motorbike suffered head injuries and a broken leg in the collision was awarded €240,000 in compensation yesterday.

NOT for the first time, RTÉ’s flagship programme, the Late Late Show, has been used as a tool to promote a singularly left-wing view of the world and thereby stifle a much-needed debate on issues that affect every man, woman, and child, in the country.

IN between all the empty debate and petty disputes and rows and static and scandal and point-scoring and personality disputes and constituency infighting, you get rare reminders politics can still concern itself with — to paraphrase Otto von Bismarck — the art of the possible.

WHEN is a boat not a boat? When it’s a ‘boash’.

PROFESSOR Edward of the University of Limerick has opened a debate that is long overdue on a subject the liberal forces prefer not to hear — the same forces that are tearing society apart.

AS a veteran socialist/liberal commentator, Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, February 15) not surprisingly chooses to concentrate on the micro issues regarding lone parenthood — usually motherhood — in his take on Kevin Myers’ “disgusting article” in the Irish Times.

AS usual, James Lawton, columnist with the London Independent, didn’t mince his words.

HOW dare Maurice Fitzgerald (Irish Examiner letters, February 11), call lone parenting “the easy way out”. From personal experience I can tell him it is anything but.

NEVER mind the views of a self-important pundit. And let’s avoid political correctness, too. Is there really a big issue around this business of single parents?

AT the end of 1994, Kevin Myers wrote a column with the headline: “Unmarried mothers.”

DURING the 1830s a number of learned men presented evidence to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws concerning the ‘growing evil’ of bastardy.

KEVIN MYERS screwed up big time. I, too, have made mistakes, and by God did I beat myself up over them. It’s hard to beat a Catholic conscience on that score.

DURING World War II, Adolf Hitler forced the Jews of Europe to wear the Star of David to distinguish them from the ‘master race’.

VINCENT BROWNE was utterly indignant on his programme on Tuesday night as he launched into the Irish Times over the column in which Kevin Myers used the term “bastards” in an offensive and distinctly insensitive way.

EVERY so often, Kevin Myers gets out the wrong side of the bed and takes it out on the world, in this case unmarried mothers.