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Scientists say Irish charm an evolutionary response to ugliness

Scientists say Irish charm an evolutionary response to ugliness

Researchers at Trinity College in Dublin have come up with a startling new theory on how the legendary Irish charm developed – it was the only way our bet down ancestors could be guaranteed to reproduce.

Newly discovered potato skin parchments reveal that after several millenia of humping our cousins, the Irish gene pool became so restricted that the race was in danger of dying out.

With the arrival of Scandinavian and Norman invaders a thousand years ago, the Irish had the chance to rescue their bloodlines, but the Ice cold Northerners and Snobby French turned up their noses at our silage colognes and freckled third chins.

It was only through the genius of the much-maligned King of Leinster Diarmuid MacMurrough that the country was saved.

McMurrough realised that a few flagons of mead, a cheeky grin and a couple of stories about the time you and the boys went stone mad on the J1 would melt the heart of the foreigners.

He quickly got Strongbow mashed out of his brains on the cider that now bears his name, married him off to his heifer of a daughter and started the flow of new genes that has ensured our survival today.

Irish holidaymakers now do their best to fulfil this genetic destiny by finding more attractive partners while abroad and refusing to travel home.

Meanwhile, the rest of us suffer and hit the gargle to escape our unattractive reality - left with a night out in Coppers, no jobs and a long term relationship with someone the tide wouldn’t take out to look forward to.

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(Reuters) - A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kiev on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship.

The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kiev-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism.

Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimeter (two feet) high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open air exhibition in central Kiev, ostensibly to be photographed alongside it like hundreds of other sightseers.

But she then pulled down her red T-shirt to reveal the words "Fuck Euro 2012" scrawled on her torso. As she grabbed hold of the cup with both hands, she was seized by security guards, who appeared to have had advanced warning of the protest.

They covered her with a sheet and took her off to a waiting police car.

The protest appeared to be the first action in a campaign against the championship by Femen which regularly stages bare-breast protests in Ukraine - and sometimes beyond - to highlight what it sees as political injustice, social abuse and the exploitation of women in Ukraine.