Roadside delivery is year’s first for Clare

The number of people actually born on Co Clare soil swelled by one in the early hours of Friday morning when baby Éirinn Christina Robbins Logue was born on the side of the road in the small Burren village of Corofin.

Éirinn’s parents, Caralyn Robbins and Phil Logue, were about to drop their two older children at their aunt’s house at Laghtagoona in Corofin before carrying on to hospital in Galway, when Éirinn decided her big moment had arrived.

The momentous birth took place on the road outside Caralyn’s sister Crystel’s house, with dad Phil acting as a more than capable midwife.