Posted on 01/18/2006 4:59:48 AM PST by voletti
Dublin: Scientists in Ireland may have found the country's most fertile male, with more than 3 million men worldwide among his offspring.
The scientists, from Trinity College Dublin, have discovered that as many as one in twelve Irish men could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, a 5th-century warlord who was head of the most powerful dynasty in ancient Ireland.
His genetic legacy is almost as impressive as Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor who conquered most of Asia in the 13th century and has nearly 16 million descendants, said Dan Bradley, who supervised the research.
"It's another link between profligacy and power," Bradley said. "We're the first generation on the planet where if you're successful you don't (always) have more children."
The research was carried out by PhD student Laoise Moore, at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at Trinity. Moore, testing the Y chromosome which is passed on from fathers to sons, examined DNA samples from 800 males across Ireland.
The results -- which have been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics -- showed the highest concentration of related males in northwest Ireland, where one in five males had the same Y chromosome.
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1. Ted Kennedy.
" ...Niall of the Nine Hostages, a 5th-century warlord who was head of the most powerful dynasty in ancient Ireland."
I wasn't aware that they had screen names in the 5th century.
When contacted about the award, Mr. of the Nine Hostages stated "I would like to thank the makers of Guiness..."
If he had fancied a pint now and then, to loosen up his libido, he coulda been a contender to dethrone Genghis.
yeah...adam and eve...(snicker)
I take it this guy was around before the invention of Whiskey?
Finally an Irishman who wasn't too drunk to f*ck . . . !
Me too. My grandfathers side is Irish, my grandmothers side is Scottish. I know that anscestorial route, we are Buchanan's. Don't know about the Irish.
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Mag: Ted K’s secret love child a secret no more
Posted by skikvt
On 01/18/2006 8:04:43 AM EST · 23 replies · 1,301+ views
The Boston Herald ^ | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 | Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
The National Enquirer splashes this week with a shocking story about Sen. Ted Kennedy’s secret love child with a Cape Cod woman whom the mag says he dated during his days as a swinging single. According to the tabloid’s source, the boy, named Christopher, just celebrated his 21st birthday and is “mature enough to make his own choices about his background and biological father.” A Kennedy family confidante told the Enquirer, “This is one of the biggest secrets in the Kennedy family and known to only a few people including Ted’s ex-wife, Joan.” As for the senator, his spokesgal Melissa...
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Scientists discover most fertile Irish male
Posted by voletti
On 01/18/2006 7:59:48 AM EST · 11 replies · 481+ views
Me too. My one side of the family was from County Mayo, Connaught Province.
Pity, there would be more of us!
Niall....the original Mac Daddy
Me three...mom's people were from Roscommon, County Mayo.
Was your mom from Northeast PA? The Scranton area was a common emigration point for the Irish of County Mayo.
I wish I could specifically find the area my ancestors were from. Unfortunately, no one seems to know, plus, Irish genealogic records are not that great (due to a fire in a building that housed many of those records in Ireland, as well as the fact that Ireland was basically a poor country, and didn't keep records as detailed as other parts of the British Empire. Can you tell I'm a genealogy buff?
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