Premature babies reunite at first day of school

THERE were touching scenes at one Limerick primary school yesterday when four children enjoyed a very special reunion on their first day of school.

Premature triplets, Chloe, Rachel and Robbie Widger, 4, began their first day at Monaleen National School in Limerick with four-year-old Sam Prendergast, who also arrived into the world ahead of his due date.

All four children spent several weeks together in the neonatal unit of the Mid-Western Regional Maternity Hospital in Limerick. Little did they know that four years later they would be reunited again starting in the same school on the same day.