Grandmother Claire to the rescue with back-seat baby delivery

Grandmotherly duties usually extend to babysitting or gift-giving, but Claire O’Driscoll from East Cork went further than most with her latest favour as she helped deliver her daughter’s second child in the back of a jeep on a roundabout outside a maternity hospital.

Claire O’Driscoll was asleep at her home in Ballymacoda at 3am yesterday when she received a phone call from her son-in-law Austin O’Donoghue to say that his wife, Sinéad, was going into hospital to have their second child.

Claire had promised Sinéad, 30, she would be with her at the delivery so she rushed to be at her daughter’s side en route to Cork University Maternity Hospital. (CUMH). Sinéad wasn’t due for another week and only went on maternity leave from her job at Tesco in Youghal last week.