Ella takes net by storm

SHE may only be two years old but Cork’s latest YouTube sensation has one “ella” of a voice – and could be following fellow Corkonians Crystal Swing onto the Ellen de Generes show.

At the start of April, Ella O’Brien’s aunt, Maria, uploaded to the internet what she thought was just a funny video of her niece singing along to US teen sensation Justin Bieber’s song Baby.

For two minutes and 20 seconds, the infant boomed out the words of the song into her makeshift microphone – a television remote control. Behind the bed on which she gamely bounced, was a poster of the teen star himself – a young man she already considers her “boyfriend”.