That article is a couple of months old. I don't think he was fired,but...

"And so, conforming with the prevalent culture of aggressive sanctimony which surrounds aid to the "developing world" (developing what, pray?), Denise Charlton of the Immigrant Council of Ireland reported my article to An Garda Siochana, seeking my prosecution and imprisonment. The stunning silence from the great mass of journalists about the threat facing me is a marvellous testimony to the level of politically correct McCarthyism that is rampant within the Fourth Estate these days."

That's from yeasterdays' article.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/africa-and-the-700bn-foreign-aid-question-noone-dares-ask-1465297.html