{"id":224479,"date":"2026-01-03T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224479\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:10:10","slug":"wicklow-girl-arrives-right-on-cue-and-is-the-first-baby-born-at-wexford-general-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224479\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow girl arrives right on cue and is the first baby born at Wexford General in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Redmond and Caitlin Redmond from Ballingate Upper, Carnew pictured with baby Aodh\u00e1 Kate Redmond who was born on New Year's Day in Wexford General Hospital at 6.50pm weighting 3.62kg. Pic: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7455e2e6-15ef-42f4-a992-9f433dd0ac1b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John Redmond and Caitlin Redmond from Ballingate Upper, Carnew pictured with baby Aodh\u00e1 Kate Redmond who was born on New Year&#8217;s Day in Wexford General Hospital at 6.50pm weighting 3.62kg. Pic: Jim Campbell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There was plenty of joy, with some shock for one family this New Year\u2019s Day in Wexford General Hospital as the maternity ward welcomed the first baby of 2026 in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Caitlin and John Redmond from Carnew, Co. Wicklow were overjoyed to welcome their first child, Aodh\u00e1 Kate Redmond at 6.50 p.m on Thursday, January 1, weighing in at exactly eight pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Redmond and Caitlin Redmond from Ballingate Upper, Carnew pictured with baby Aodh\u00e1 Kate Redmond who was born&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11711,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-224479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alan-white","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\/224479","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=224479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}