NO. Nor would they apologize for taking a swig of beer on St Patricks Day.
The (we) Irish can take it.
Others demand superiority and equality. The Irish worked for it and earn it wherever it’s deserved. and can take a joke.
I'm celebrating Seis de Mayo tonight.
Then Governor Jesse Ventura explained to David Letterman why the streets in Downtown St. Paul were so confusing - laid out by drunken Irishmen.
The Irish had a cow: eg.https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.irish/xM2A2rEbWY4