Special deliveries help ring in the new year

AS new year revellers sang Auld Lang Syne and pledged resolutions, more serene and joyous celebrations took place in hospitals all across the country.

Among the new year bundles of joy welcomed to the world on the first day of the year were Margaret Mary White, born at Cork University Maternity Hospital, Leah Rose O’Dowd born at Kerry General Hospital and Jilliene Reyn Versoza, who came into the world at the Coombe in Dublin.

Newborn howls were heard at Cork’s University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) at 12.43am thanks to Margaret Mary White who was born to Anne Dullea White, originally from Bandon in Co Cork, and weighed in at 3.3kg — just over 7lb.