{"id":322842,"date":"2026-03-01T03:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322842\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:41:09","slug":"former-dublin-gaa-star-welcomes-their-second-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322842\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Dublin GAA star welcomes their second child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/08\/08\/entertainment\/dublin-ger-brennan-gaa-family\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/08\/08\/entertainment\/dublin-ger-brennan-gaa-family\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Former Dublin GAA <\/a>star Philly McMahon is bursting with pride and joy this week as he thanked his wife for giving birth to their second child. <\/p>\n<p>Philly and Sarah welcomed their first child, Baby Leannain, in 2022 and kept this pregnancy very quiet, with no mention of their exciting news on social media. <\/p>\n<p>Completely in love, it was Philly&#8217;s heart-warming message on his online platform that tugged on the heartstrings of those reading. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Welcome-to-the-world-my-beautiful-daughter-Isabelle_78566f.jpg\" alt=\"Philly McMahon arrival of second child\" class=\"wp-image-2114497\"  \/>Pic: Philly McMahon \/Instagram <\/p>\n<p>Revealing the news online, <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2024\/05\/30\/sport\/gaa\/lee-keegan-philly-mcmahon-croke-park\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2024\/05\/30\/sport\/gaa\/lee-keegan-philly-mcmahon-croke-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Philly <\/a>posted a few pictures of their new arrival and their son Leannain meeting his new baby sister.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the caption, Philly sweetly wrote, &#8216;Welcome to the world, my beautiful daughter Isabelle. We are so lucky and grateful for this little gift.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Thanks so much to everyone who has reached out to congradulate us,&#8217; he said. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Welcome-to-the-world-my-beautiful-daughter-Isabelle.jpg\" alt=\"Philly McMahon arrival of second child\" class=\"wp-image-2114495\"  \/>Pic: Philly McMahon \/Instagram <\/p>\n<p>With a special mention to his wife, Sarah, he said &#8216;thanks for bringing beautiful Isabelle into the world. Both Leannain and Isabelle are so lucky to have you as their mam, and my wife loves you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Finishing, he thanked those who helped bring their daughter into the world &#8216;Big thanks to all the amazing staff in the\u00a0Rotunda Hospital\u00a0for looking after Sarah and Isabelle so well.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Welcome-to-the-world-my-beautiful-daughter-Isabelle_ca25b8.jpg\" alt=\"Philly McMahon arrival of second child\" class=\"wp-image-2114498\"  \/>Pic: Philly McMahon \/Instagram <\/p>\n<p>Taking the obligatory &#8216;dad photo,&#8217; Philly held tightly onto the baby carrier, making sure Isabelle was safe and sound, excited to bring her home for the first time to meet everyone. <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Philly and Sarah! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dublin GAA star Philly McMahon is bursting with pride and joy this week as he thanked his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-322842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322842","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=322842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}