Irish people, descended from Spaniards ?!?!

[Zorruko]

I always though that Celts in Northwest Spain (Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria) were descendants of Irish/Britons celtic tribes, but it seems was backwards. Apparently, Celts of Ireland may be descendants of Iberian people, celtic and non-celtic, this is a very good subject to discuss:

http://killarney-ireland.info/geneal...genealogy.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...ds-416727.html

[Alex Delarge]

Those web links are very old (2006) and they were based on R1b. After that genetics appeared and showed no so much similarity...

[gold_fenix]

rather we must to say that we have a common ancestry, the preceltic or protoceltic people

[Alvarado]

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[Allenson]

Indeed. The vast bulk of the R1b found in Ireland isn't downstream from the R1b found in Iberia (or visa-versa for that matter). They're simply different branches of the same tree.