{"id":202225,"date":"2025-12-20T16:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202225\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:55:10","slug":"influencer-sinead-hegarty-chooses-cute-name-for-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202225\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer Sinead Hegarty chooses cute name for baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the most wonderful time of the year, but things are a little extra magical for Sinead Hegarty and her fianc\u00e9, Sam Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Just days before Christmas, two have become three as Sinead and Sam have welcomed their first child, a baby boy, to the world.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSe0Y0nE2Rk\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the first snaps of their little man<\/a>, new mum Sinead is positively glowing, and new dad Sam is shown taking his parenting duties very seriously.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-best-Christmas-gift-we-could-ask-for-\ud83e\udd79\ud83c\udf84Sonny-Matthew-Smith-19-12-2025-\ud83d\udcab\ud83d\udc99.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2082763\"  \/>Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Sinead shared photos of her family of three in the hospital, and beautiful festive snaps after they took their little man home for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The best Christmas gift we could ask for,&#8217; the influencer wrote, before revealing her son&#8217;s name: &#8216;Sonny Matthew Smith &#8211; 19\/12\/2025.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-best-Christmas-gift-we-could-ask-for-\ud83e\udd79\ud83c\udf84Sonny-Matthew-Smith-19-12-2025-\ud83d\udcab\ud83d\udc99-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2082764\"  \/>Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>A host of well-known faces have shared their words of congratulations, with Maeve Madden leading the way. <\/p>\n<p>The fitness influencer penned: &#8216;Congratulations. Absolutely thrilled for you both. Welcome, little one, to our wonderful world. Wishing you health and happiness.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Louise Cooney penned: &#8216;Awww, huge congrats to you both. He is beautiful.&#8217; Others who joined in included Dearbhla Silke, Niamh de Br\u00fan, and The Head Plan founder Denise Kenny Byrne.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-best-Christmas-gift-we-could-ask-for-\ud83e\udd79\ud83c\udf84Sonny-Matthew-Smith-19-12-2025-\ud83d\udcab\ud83d\udc99-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2082765\"  \/>Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The past 12 months have been big and full of amazing surprises for Sinead and Sam. She previously said that she felt like &#8216;2025 really said &#8220;here\u2019s all your dreams&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sam popped the question while they were on a boat trip in New York, and as soon as he started to drop to one knee, Sinead clocked that something was up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-best-Christmas-gift-we-could-ask-for-\ud83e\udd79\ud83c\udf84Sonny-Matthew-Smith-19-12-2025-\ud83d\udcab\ud83d\udc99-3.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2082766\"  \/>Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Sinead was clearly surprised by the proposal and couldn&#8217;t help but beam with joy as she told Sam yes and gave him a celebratory kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the video on stories, Sinead added: &#8216;Universe just decided to give me my whole Pinterest board in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Honestly, this man is just something else. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to soon have him as a husband and as a dad.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_20250722-120521.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2009775\"  \/>Pic: Sinead Hegarty\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/07\/31\/entertainment\/sinead-hegarty-dreams-engaged\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">engagement news<\/a> came just one month after Sinead and Sam announced that they were expecting their rainbow baby. Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the most wonderful time of the year, but things are a little extra magical for Sinead Hegarty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-202225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}