[2] Myers is known for his controversial views on a number of topics, including single mothers, aid for Africa, the Holocaust and Irish nationalism.
In July 2017, The Sunday Times announced that Myers would no longer be writing for them following an article he wrote on the BBC gender pay gap, for which he was accused of antisemitism and misogyny,[3] although the chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland stated, "Branding Kevin Myers as either an antisemite or a Holocaust denier is an absolute distortion of the facts.
[5] He subsequently worked as a journalist for Irish broadcaster RTÉ, and reported from Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles.
[13] Myers was a regular contributor to radio programmes on Newstalk 106, particularly Lunchtime with Eamon Keane and The Right Hook.
In 2008, he wrote a column condemning the anniversary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising, asking, "What is there to celebrate about the cold-blooded slaughter of innocent people in the streets of Dublin?
"[16] Myers has described the Larne gun-running by Ulster Volunteers in 1914 as "high treason, done in collaboration with senior figures in the British Army and the Conservative Party.
There is no republican equivalent to the Romper Rooms of the UDA, wherein men were routinely beaten to a pulp by loyalist thugs... And then there was Lenny Murphy and his merry gang, the Shankill Butchers, who for years in the mid-1970s abducted, tortured and murdered Catholics – usually by cutting their victims' throats.
[20][21] In July 2008, Myers wrote an article arguing that providing aid to Africa only results in increasing its population, and its problems.
[22] This produced strong reactions, with the Immigrant Council of Ireland making an official complaint to the Garda Síochána alleging incitement to hatred.
[24][25] In their case details the Press Council said: beginning with the headline "Africa is giving nothing to anyone – apart from AIDS", the mode of presentation was marked by rhetorical extravagance and hyperbole which used the failings of some to stigmatise whole societies, employing a level of generalisation that was distorting and seriously insulting to Africans as a whole and that, ... [I]n addition the article resorted, in several instances, to language that was gratuitously offensive and was, in the view of the Press Council, likely to cause grave offence to people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and to the many Africans in particular who are now resident in Ireland.
They also concluded that the Council did not have clear grounds on which to make any findings in relation to the complaints under Principles 1, 3 & 4 of the Code.At the end of July 2017, Myers contributed an article entitled "Sorry, ladies – equal pay has to be earned" to the Irish edition of The Sunday Times about the BBC gender pay gap controversy.
[3] He wrote: "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".
The editor of the Irish edition, Frank Fitzgibbon, issued a statement saying in part "This newspaper abhors anti-Semitism and did not intend to cause offence to Jewish people".
[29] Media reporting the 2017 controversy drew attention to a 2009 column in the Sunday Independent and Belfast Telegraph opposing laws against Holocaust denial.
"[32] In February 2018, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland by majority decision upheld an objection to the RTÉ radio programme Morning Ireland presenter Audrey Carville's description of Myers as a Holocaust denier:[33] "While noting that Mr. Myers had described himself as a 'Holocaust denier' in a typically provocative newspaper article that he had written, it was evident from the article as a whole that his description did not in fact amount to a statement denying the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazi regime.