Someone - Joe Offer I think - asked what brought the British to Ireland in the first place.

That is easily answered, but get the players correct to begin with.

1: It wasn't the British, or the Saxons, it was the Normans in the 12th century.

2: They were invited to Ireland by a disgruntled and disposed Irish King in order to help him regain his Kingdom, a kingdom that had been taken from him by the High King of Ireland.

3: The Normans then did to Ireland what they had done on the British mainland about 100 years earlier. Same sort of thing that the Americans did to the native population - they took their land by force - that most certainly was they way things were done back in medieval times, should I apologise for it? Hell no, as it had absolutely nothing to do with me - All water that has long since flowed under the bridge.