DUBLIN — The author of a British newspaper column broadly condemned as anti-Semitic and misogynistic has publicly apologized, saying he was a “great admirer of the Jewish people.”

In an emotional appearance on Tuesday on one of Ireland’s leading daytime radio shows, the author, Kevin Myers, said that he was not an anti-Semite but that his weakness for “throwaway lines” had probably ended his career.

Mr. Myers was fired as a columnist for the Irish edition of The Sunday Times of London after writing an article that attacked the campaign for equal pay for women employed by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

“I note that two of the best-paid women presenters in the BBC — Claudia Winkelman and Vanessa Feltz, with whose, no doubt, sterling work I am tragically unacquainted — are Jewish,” he wrote. “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. I wonder, who are their agents? If they’re the same ones that negotiated the pay for the women on the lower scales, then maybe the latter have found their true value in their marketplace.”