‘I must answer for what I’ve done’, says columnist Kevin Myers

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

“I really mean this because I am not rescuing anything — it is over for me professionally as far as I can see — I am very, very sorry,” he said.

The column, with the headline ‘Sorry, ladies — equal pay has to be earned’, focused on the fallout from the BBC pay controversy and the revelation that two-thirds of its stars earning more than £150,000 (€168,000) are male.