Identical triplets a labour of love

An Irish couple has told of their astonishment at giving birth to natural identical triplets — at odds of more than 160,000 to one.

The girls — Beth, Shauna and Molly — already had a claim to fame by being filmed for RTE’s upcoming show, Births of a Nation, when they were in the womb and after they arrived into the world by caesarean at Holles Street in February.

But now DNA results have confirmed the three 10-week-old daughters of Gráinne Coleman and her husband Rory are completely identical — with Shauna’s freckles and their differing weights the only surefire ways of telling the pretty baby girls apart.