The former Sunday Times columnist appeared on RTÉ Radio’s Today with Sean O’Rourke on Tuesday morning.
Kevin Myers has apologised to Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman for the comments that saw him lose his job as a Sunday Times columnist at the weekend.
Myers made anti-semitic and sexist remarks against both Winkleman and Feltz in his widely condemned piece for the Irish edition of The Sunday Times, a column that led to his immediate sacking.
The former Irish Times journalist had been writing about the pay disparity between men and women at the BBC when he used the following line on both Winkleman and Feltz: ‘…good for them. Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity.”
On Tuesday morning, he apologised on RTÉ Radio One, claiming he has the support of many members of “that religion.”
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