{"id":210345,"date":"2025-12-25T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210345\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:35:07","slug":"first-christmas-babies-of-2025-arrive-at-maternity-hospitals-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210345\/","title":{"rendered":"First Christmas babies of 2025 arrive at maternity hospitals \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A couple living in Kilbarrack, north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a>, overnight became parents to one of the first babies born in Ireland on Christmas day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kristin and Colm Concannon welcomed their son Ronan at 0.06am at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rotunda-hospital\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rotunda-hospital\/\">Rotunda Hospital<\/a>. Baby Ronan weighed 3.23kg on arrival at the hospital in Dublin\u2019s north inner city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Just one minute later, Natalia Simciuc gave birth to her and her partner Constantin\u2019s baby boy, David, also at the Rotunda. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Baby David with his mother Natalia Simciuc and midwife Elsie Cotterill at the Rotunda Hospital\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TJWNR7PNWZB4HIGHXQ57YJAP5I.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"954\"\/>Baby David with his mother Natalia Simciuc and midwife Elsie Cotterill at the Rotunda Hospital <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">David weighed 3.27kg on his arrival. The Simciucs will bring David home to Tyrellstown, west Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Also at the Rotunda, baby Tommy Kenna was born to parents Ruth and Gary, from Kinsealy, Dublin. Tommy was delivered at 7.09am, weighing 3.7kg. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Baby Tommy with parents Ruth and Gary Kenna at the Rotunda Hospital\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/VGO36L2TKFFDDLLJPPZWZRK3PU.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>Baby Tommy with parents Ruth and Gary Kenna at the Rotunda Hospital <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Across the city, the first baby born at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/coombe-hospital\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/coombe-hospital\/\">Coombe Hospital<\/a> was Cro\u00eda McMullan, weighing 3.27kg on her arrival at 0.41am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jodie and Jeremy McMullan with baby Cro&#xED;a, who was born in the Coombe\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7W6HO42W45BRZDYOLT4PDW5T6A.png\"   width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>Jodie and Jeremy McMullan with baby Cro\u00eda, who was born in the Coombe <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Baby Cro\u00eda was delivered to parents Jodie and Jeremy McMullan, from Kill, Co Kildare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple living in Kilbarrack, north Dublin, overnight became parents to one of the first babies born in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9484,630,42,43,629,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-210345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christmas","tag-coombe-hospital","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-rotunda-hospital","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210345","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=210345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}