Personally if it was a genuine apology, then yep I would. The issue is whether it was genuine or not. 'Rooney's story' in the paper was a bit too much of a coincidence.
I would be inclined to agree with mypost that regardless of what the Sun said, it wouldn't be accepted by a considerable amount of people entrenched in their views. However that particular attempt at an apology wouldn't/shouldn't be genuinely accepted by anybody anywhere.