Ireland and Scotland have been swapping DNA for at least 2000+ years. To say that there is much differance is to be ignorant of the facts. Lets go back 1000 years, there would be zero differance between the two. 100 years ago the Irish population viewed the Scottish Highlanders as Cousins if not Brothers. In fact Irish Nationalists arround that time (1900) encurraged the wear of Kilts as being as being more Irish than the English fashons.

Further, I was watching a video about the IRA in the 1970s and the IRA had a bagpiper in a kilt at a funeral. If the IRA say that the bagpipe and kilt are Irish then I would accept it as having some truth to it.

Yeah the Plastic Paddies are sad, the Irishman who knows nothing about his own past is sadder still.