IN MANY cases, these mothers didn’t expect to be brandishing Christmas Day babies but they were all delighted after experiencing one of the most unforgettable Christmas Days of their lives.

A MOTHER who fell to her death from the fourth floor at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin told her children practically every day that she loved them, a priest told mourners at her funeral yesterday.

A MOTHER of five who fell to her death from the fourth floor at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin last weekend will be buried today following her funeral Mass.