Now, the couple have shared their most recent milestone: a healthy baby girl, \u00c9ala Valerie, with her middle name honouring Fayth’s beloved nanny.<\/p>\n
“Ah stop, bleedin’ buzzy, I am”, James said about the news, speaking from outside the Rotunda Hospital.<\/p>\n
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Filling Oliver in on his partner and bouncing bundle of joy, he said they were both “healthy and happy, thank god”.<\/p>\n
The couple had a stressful week in the lead up to \u00c9ala’s arrival, as James said that Fayth had some reduced movement last week. This led to the pair being in the Rotunda “three out of four nights”, looking for some guidance and assurance.<\/p>\n
“We were more panicked ourselves, being first-time parents; it’s scary. Anyone would say that.”<\/p>\n
Fayth was kept in for monitoring on Friday evening, and by Sunday she was induced. \u00c9ala was born on 4 August, with James giving the entire team at the Rotunda enormous praise for their care, particularly their midwife Annemarie.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t just Fayth she was looking after, she was looking after me, everything! She was unbelievable at her job.”<\/p>\n
As for his partner, James gushed that Fayth was “a superstar” in the delivery room. “I couldn’t believe how well she was doing!” He couldn’t hide his joy on the call, saying he was “Head over heels, I can’t get enough of the two of them!”<\/p>\n
By the sounds of things, he has some competition getting air-time with them, as the hospital has been flooded with the couple’s delighted family members, all eager to show their love and support. “From 4pm to 8pm it’s like The Snapper up there!”<\/p>\n
The couple charmed viewers with their appearance on First Dates.<\/p>\n
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Unashamedly ‘looking for a wife’, larger-than-life site foreman James entered the restaurant with buckets of confidence, insisting that his appearance on the dating show was “the talk of building sites around Dublin”.<\/p>\n
The then-23-year-old Clondalkin native told the cameras that he was a romantic at heart and was ready to find his soulmate: “As soon as that girl walks through the door, I’ll know straight away,” he insisted.<\/p>\n
Enter Fayth, a then-21-year-old Health Care Assistant from East Wall, looking for someone her mother would approve of.<\/p>\n
“I definitely learned to always take my mammy’s advice when it comes to men,” she told producers. “If she gets one sort of bad vibe, there’s no going back from that. If my ma doesn’t like you, I can’t either.”<\/p>\n
Within minutes, the pair were in stitches and sparks were most definitely flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Dates Ireland couple James Farrell and Fayth Byrne joined Oliver Callan to celebrate the newest addition to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-585201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585201","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=585201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}