and to further complicate issues the Celts were invaders anyway, just as the Romans after them and the Saxons after them. As far as I am aware the earliest known settlements around all three current countries of this Isle were Pictish. Just as the Romans pushed the Celts to the outlying regions, the Celts did so with the Picts. I am not sure what the Irish were originaly but of one thing I am sure. As Ireland seems to be the furthest north west that the Celtic people went from their home in the south east, probably in Africa, Ireland would have been one of the last nations that the Celts colonised.

Yes, btw, Ewan did write 'the first time'.

Cheers

Dave