{"id":644142,"date":"2026-10-04T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644142\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:20:10","slug":"tanaiste-simon-harris-and-wife-caoimhe-welcome-baby-girl-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644142\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris and wife Caoimhe welcome baby girl \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">T\u00e1naiste <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/simon-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/simon-harris\/\">Simon Harris<\/a> and his wife Caoimhe have welcomed a new baby girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The birth of their third child on Friday comes just days before Harris is due to deliver his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/budget\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/budget\/\">Budget<\/a> as Minister for Finance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood he will take paternity leave after the Budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While the length of time he will take is yet to be confirmed, fathers are entitled to two weeks of statutory paternity leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2026\/10\/03\/budget-builders-the-money-ministers-who-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Budget builders: the money Ministers who are two sides of the same coinOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The arrival of the new baby is the reason that a planned press conference on Friday on the latest exchequer returns and the pre-Budget White Paper did not go ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Harris (39) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/people\/two-hearts-minister-for-health-ties-the-knot-in-co-wicklow-1.3163042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/people\/two-hearts-minister-for-health-ties-the-knot-in-co-wicklow-1.3163042\">married Caoimhe Wade<\/a>, a clinical nurse specialist, in 2017. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The pair welcomed their first child, a girl in 2019, and went on to have a son in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Speaking at a Fianna F\u00e1il event in Dublin, Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin congratulated Harris and Caoimhe on the \u201cjoyous news on the birth of their baby girl\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said he was in touch with Harris on Friday and \u201cnotwithstanding that we have a budget to bring to completion it was great news all round\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris and his wife Caoimhe have welcomed a new baby girl. The birth of their third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[895,3775,42,1843,43,70,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-644142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-headlines","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-simon-harris","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644142","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=644142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}