The first baby born in 2026 was delivered at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin\u2019s north inner city just seconds after midnight. <\/p>\n
Elliot was welcomed at 35 seconds past midnight, weighing 3.65kg (8lbs 1oz). His parents are Rachel and Adam Deak from Rathnew, Co Wicklow.<\/p>\n
Millie Elizabeth Kelleher was born at 40 seconds past midnight at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin weighing 2.9kg (6lbs 6oz). <\/p>\n
Her parents, Sally and John Kelleher live in Naas, Co Kildare and she is their second child, with her older brother Max aged 20 months. <\/p>\n
Ms Kelleher is originally from Naas while Mr Kelleher is from Tarbert in Co Kerry. <\/p>\n
At the Coombe Hospital in Dublin, Kash was born at two minutes past midnight, weighing 3.8kg (8lbs 5oz). His parents, Rebecca and Keane Burke, are from Dublin 8 and he is the couple\u2019s second child. <\/p>\n
Leo McNamee, weighing 3.65kg (8lbs 1oz), was delivered at five minutes past midnight at the Coombe Hospital also, to parents Danielle and Troy, from Lucan, Co Dublin. <\/p>\n
Anjali, weighing 3.1kg (6lbs 13oz), was also born at the hospital, six minutes after midnight. Her mother Ranjitha Sivakumar is from Dublin and Anjali is her second child.<\/p>\n
Rosie-Lee Harkin, weighing 2.8kg (6lbs 1oz), was born at 10 seconds past midnight at Belfast\u2019s Royal Victoria Hospital to Natasha Byers and Daniel Larkin, from Lurgan, Co Armagh.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Professor Jennifer Walsh has been inaugurated as the new master of the National Maternity Hospital for a seven-year term. <\/p>\n
She is only the second female clinician to hold the role of master in the hospital\u2019s 132-year history. <\/p>\n
Prof Walsh has taken over from Professor Shane Higgins who will continue as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Holles Street.<\/p>\n
Her first day in the role coincided with staff welcoming the first babies of the New Year. More than 7,000 babies were delivered at the hospital in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first baby born in 2026 was delivered at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin\u2019s north inner city just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10863,61,60,43,10864],"class_list":{"0":"post-222123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-bestof","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-topix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222123","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=222123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}