Sean is quite right in what he says though to be the butt of essentially the same joke over and over, just because of your accent, isn't nice, whether you have been discriminated against historically or not. And yes the Irish jokes are definitely fewer these days, particularly in TV programmes, tho I do recall a thread on this forum a short while ago that may have offended some Irish forumites ( don't ask me to supply a link - it is best left forgotten!)