The point of the apology is to express genuine regret or an appeal for forgiveness which didn't exist with the Monarchy or the absentee landlords who profited from that famine 'holocaust' at the time and doesn't appear to exist with its decsendants who ultimately benefitted from it.

It just makes you wonder if the demonic ethnic bias that instituted penal laws to prevent Catholics from owning or inheriting land to support themselves, and then exported massive amounts of food from Ireland in the worst years of the 'famine', the same Imperialist who let this type of holocaust all happen again in India a few years later, remains to this day.

Not to worry about stirring things up now because most people affected are gone and any surviving descendants (like me) know that there is a special place in hell for those people that did it or somehow condoned it. The funny thing would have been if everyone else took their laissez-faire approach back when Hitler was bombing England - or was that some kind of karma payback?

Lesson learned I would hope.