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Nepotism is alive and well in the technology companies of Ireland

Nepotism is alive and well in the technology companies of Ireland. Of course, there's no particular reason why this should be a bad thing, and certainly we're used to politicians keeping things all in the family. But we hadn't realised that sharing genes enhanced one's ability to programme or design a Web page. Apparently so: the Margin can reveal that, on a staff of 80, Dublin Web consultancy company Oniva features no less than five sets of siblings, with one cousin thrown in for good measure.