They couldn't care less about Ireland. Some actress and presenter saw it and had a tizzy and rang them up and that was that.
His "contrarian" stuff though has all been childish and actually a lot of it has been in the service of the "Powers that Be". Plus he is not witty.
He single handily fought the cause of the Irish/British soldier which was a lonely outpost and he raised the profile of the "" other garden of remembrance"" which was very pointedly not remembered until queen Elizabeth paid it a visit and was introduced to Mr Myers on site on TV .
i will forever remember his article in the Irish times about his singular trip on a double Decker bus to Tallaght where he met and had to converse with people who had never and would never buy the Irish times in their lifetimes .
it did not go well and Mr Myers swore he would never attempt a bus journey again in Ireland .
he was despised by many journalists as he went his own way and his insights were too right wing --to honest at times and too English snob at other times .
we were not English --did not speak his queens English -- he did not get our humor we did not get his English humor --it sounded condescending to our ears .
he was in our unspoken Irish rule book a required English presence during the troubles to allow ""the English "" view to give sort of balance sort of to the times .
when the troubles were over we unconsciously questioned the need for Mr Myers and he became a public irritant to many and he began to attract criticism on a regular basis .
the lefty's wanted rid of him yesterday big time and they got rid of him when given half a chance .
he educated us all by his demise --almost nobody came to his defense and George Hook was also got rid of in a similar fashion and i remember him stuttering on radio that he was a life member of the Macabees club and could not be more Jewish friendly.
-- it was so bad and truly sad his career was over like Myers for nothing but it could be interpreted by those who wished to interpret it t as anti antisemitism.
i was waiting for him to say he was going to go out and get circumcised by a rabbi --it was pitiful and that was the last we heard of him --no body of journalists told these vicious fuckers to fuck off .
and now Myers rises in the most despised corner of journalism in Ireland -- we will see how it goes.
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