{"id":567748,"date":"2026-07-25T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/567748\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:10:09","slug":"baby-joy-for-rtes-maura-fay-who-has-become-a-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/567748\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby joy for RT\u00c9&#8217;s Maura Fay who has become a mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations are in order for RT\u00c9&#8217;s Maura Fay, who has welcomed a baby with her husband, Ciar\u00e1n McKenna. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The host shared the happy news with a heartwarming picture of them leaving the hospital, writing: &#8216;The strongest arms carrying our greatest adventure home.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She previously revealed that they were expecting a baby girl and was flooded with well wishes from some of her well-known co-stars. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Maura1.jpg\" alt=\"Maura Fay has welcomed a baby girl. Pic: Maura\" class=\"wp-image-2174973\"  \/>Maura Fay has welcomed a baby girl. Pic: Maura Fay Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That included Miriam O&#8217;Callaghan, who wrote: &#8216;How exciting, huge congratulations to you both.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere, Johnny Smacks, who used to work with Maura on the 2Johnnies podcast, wrote: &#8216;Congrats you two, let the fun begin.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Congratulations to you both,&#8217; added Emma Power. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Maura-3.jpg\" alt=\"Maura Fay and her husband Ciar\u00e1n McKenna have welcomed a baby girl. Pic: Maura Fay Instagram \" class=\"wp-image-2174974\"  \/>Maura Fay and her husband Ciar\u00e1n McKenna have welcomed a baby girl. Pic: Maura Fay Instagram <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DJ Fergal D&#8217;Arcy also penned a sweet tribute to the new mum, writing: &#8216;Congrats Maura.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;[I have] known ya 20 plus years and I can say with my hand on my heart you&#8217;re gonna be the world&#8217;s best mum.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maura <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/03\/19\/entertainment\/rte-maura-fay-pregnant\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/03\/19\/entertainment\/rte-maura-fay-pregnant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced her pregnancy in March<\/a> with a cute clip of their first scan and a picture of an adorable baby grow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She wrote: &#8216;Coming soon: tiny human, big chaos.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congratulations are in order for RT\u00c9&#8217;s Maura Fay, who has welcomed a baby with her husband, Ciar\u00e1n McKenna.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-567748","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\/567748","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=567748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}