9:15 AM -- Reuters reports that inbreeding in Ireland is not as extensive as once feared:

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.

Yes. He once ruled an empire the size of North Jersey.

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