{"id":211353,"date":"2025-12-26T05:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211353\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:35:13","slug":"babies-ronan-david-and-croia-proud-parents-welcome-christmas-bundles-of-joy-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211353\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies Ronan, David and Cro\u00eda \u2013 proud parents welcome Christmas bundles of joy across the country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital welcomed two Christmas babies born just one minute apart in the early hours of Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

The first baby born in the country today is believed to be a boy who arrived at 00.06am.<\/p>\n

Baby Ronan weighed 3.23kg (7lb 2oz) and was born to proud parents Kristin and Colm Concannon, from Kilbarrack in Dublin.<\/p>\n

Just a minute later, baby boy David, born at 3.27kg, was introduced to the world at 00.07am, also in the Rotunda.<\/p>\n

His delighted parents, Natalia and Constantin Simciuc, from Tyrrelstown in Dublin, celebrated his arrival.<\/p>\n

He was later photographed with his mother and midwife Elsie Cotterill.<\/p>\n

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Baby David with his mother Natalia Simciuc and midwife Elsie Cotterill<\/p>\n

Also in Dublin, the Coombe Hospital welcomed its first Christmas baby at 00.41am today.<\/p>\n

Baby girl Cro\u00eda, born at 3.27kg, was welcomed by her delighted parents Jodie and Jeremy McMullan from Kill, Co Kildare.<\/p>\n

A new mum, Ms McMullan described her first child as a \u201cmiracle baby\u201d.<\/p>\n

“When I saw her for the first time, I couldn\u2019t believe she was actually here. I was in shock and instantly in love,\u201d she told the Irish Independent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a long road to Cro\u00eda\u2019s pregnancy; she\u2019s a miracle baby, it was hard to believe she was in the world now and all mine.<\/p>\n

“Being Christmas Day kind of didn\u2019t register with me, I was tunnel-focused on getting her here. I lost track of time,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Ms McMullan said her family were all excited to meet little Cro\u00eda.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ll be going home Saturday, all going well. My parents were straight in today to meet Cro\u00eda, they are so happy for me and Jeremy.<\/p>\n

“Both of my brothers and in-laws are all very excited to meet her soon, and so are our nieces and nephews.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Baby Cro\u00eda with her parents Jodie and Jeremy McMullan<\/p>\n

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Baby Cro\u00eda held by mother Jodie McMullan<\/p>\n

Later in the morning, a baby boy, Tommy, came into the world at 7.09am in the Rotunda Hospital.<\/p>\n

Baby Tommy, weighing 3.7kg, was welcomed by his proud parents, Ruth and Gary Kenna from Kinsealy, Dublin.<\/p>\n

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Baby Tommy with new parents Ruth and Gary Kenna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital welcomed two Christmas babies born just one minute apart in the early hours of Christmas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9484,2540,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-211353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christmas","tag-adrianna-wrona","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\/211353","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=211353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}