John Boyne publicly apologised to Graham Linehan over the Roisin Murphy comments.
"There is no legal reason for me to post this message - in fact, Graham will be as surprised by its appearance as anyone - but I've given a lot of thought to this and realised that all I did in that piece 5 years ago was add to the pile-on of a decent man in a vulnerable place, when I could have used my platform to defend and support him.
"Graham, without equivocation, without excuses, and without evasion: you were right, I was wrong, and I apologise."
Good for him.