Kevin Myers has apologised for remarks he made in his Sunday Times column which were deemed anti-Semitic, and which saw him fired from the paper this week.
However, there are some who feel that the apology has added insult to injury.
Caryna Camerino, owner of Camerino's Bakery in Dublin, feels strongly about the issue as a Jewish person.
"I think he was able to use the acceptance from the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland as a shield to say, 'They forgive me.' But I don't, and I'm not represented by that acceptance. It's not my point of view."
"Any kind of generalisation is never okay. It's not useful or accurate, and when anybody says things like that, they're talking about me as a Jewish person. So if I'm a stereotype in any way, does that make me more Jewish? If I don't fit a stereotype, does that make me less Jewish? Judaism is a part of my identity - it's not my whole self."
Times columnist David Aaronovitch says, "My father and his family were Jewish, and none of them were very good with money. As a generalisation, it's actually fairly ridiculous."
"There's a significant strand of far-right anti-Semitism, and then there's the low-level anti-Semitism. In Ireland you probably have both. It's within the tradition of the Catholic church to say that the Jews killed Jesus and that they're a certain kind of people. In Britain for years, there was a similar kind of prejudice against Irish people."
