First babies of 2006 are welcomed to the world

LITTLE Molly Hogan does not know it yet but she has already made a little bit of history by being named the first baby of 2006.

The infant, who weighed 6lb 11 oz, arrived into the world at two minutes past midnight at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny.

She is the third child of Breda and Leo Hogan, Lowhill, Ballinakill, Co Laois, who already have two sons - Cillian, four, and James, three.