{"id":211235,"date":"2025-12-26T03:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211235\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:47:09","slug":"parents-share-delight-as-first-babies-of-christmas-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211235\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents share delight as first babies of Christmas arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Christmas festivities were getting under way around the country, parents in maternity hospitals across Dublin were welcoming the newest additions to their families.<\/p>\n<p>Baby Ronan was born in the Rotunda Hospital at 00.06am to parents Kristin and Colm Concannon from Kilbarrack in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Just a minute later in the Rotunda, baby boy David was born weighing 3.27kg to delighted parents Natalia and Constantin Simciuc from Tyrellstown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Baby Cro\u00eda with her parents Jodie and Jeremy McMullan in the Coombe Hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0023ac14-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nBaby Cro\u00eda with her parents Jodie and Jeremy McMullan in the Coombe Hospital<\/p>\n<p>Across the city in the Coombe Hospital, baby girl Cro\u00eda was welcomed into the world at 00.41am by parents Jodie and Jeremy McMullan from Kill, Co Kildare.<\/p>\n<p>Parents Ruth and Gary Kenna from Kinsealy in Dublin then celebrated the arrival of their son Tommy in the Rotunda at 7.09am weighing 3.7kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Christmas festivities were getting under way around the country, parents in maternity hospitals across Dublin were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-211235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211235","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=211235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}