'My little princess': RTÉ presenter Emer O'Neill welcomes baby girl

The 37-year-old author took the opportunity to thank the staff at the National Maternity Hospital for the care they gave to her and her daughter. Picture: Moya Nolan

Teacher and RTÉ presenter Emer O'Neill has welcomed a baby girl.

Posting a picture of the newborn to her Instagram, O'Neill revealed that she was born one week ago on August 5.

The broadcaster did not reveal the child's name instead referring to her as "my little princess".

"To say we are madly in love would be an understatement," she wrote.

O'Neill, who has a nine-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, shared a series of photos of her daughter in the days since she was born.

A photo from soon after the little girl was born shows O'Neill and her husband Seán beaming with joy while another shows the now-family of five leaving Holles Street.

"To say we are madly in love would be an understatement," O'Neill said. Picture: Emer O'Neill/Instagram

The 37-year-old author took the opportunity to thank the staff at the National Maternity Hospital for the care they gave to her and her daughter.

O'Neill also shared a heartwarming photo of big brother Ky and big sis Sunny Rae cuddling their new sibling at home.

Her 23.8k Instagram followers soon flooded the comments with well wishes and congratulations.

Happy to have welcomed her daughter into the world, O'Neill's pregnancy was decidedly less pleasant.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner, O'Neill shared how her diagnosis with Hyperemesis Gravidarum — a period of severe sickness and vomiting that affects roughly 1% of pregnancies — impacted her.

Emer O'Neill with her husband Seán and their children Ky, 9, and Sunny, 3. Picture: Moya Nolan

“For the first month-and-a-half, I was so sick,” she says. 

“I lost nearly two stone, and the only thing I could keep down was Coca-Cola. Eventually, I went into the emergency room on the advice of a friend and was put on fluids and prescribed medication.

“It blew my mind how I’d never heard about this, and how it was only through word-of-mouth that I could find out what to do. When it comes to female medical issues, gaslighting is the immediate phrase connected to it. So many women suffer and say nothing because they haven’t been believed before.

“I’d never had it before with my other kids so I just thought it was bad morning sickness, even though I couldn’t hold down water. From projectile vomiting, too, I came across degrees of incontinence — which is embarrassing, but also something we women need to talk about more.”