Hope arrives for couple who endured seven miscarriages and loss of baby

Baby Ellianna Hope Marie Thompson lives up to her name in a very special way.

She is barely 18 months old and the first child of Ger and Noreen Thompson, from Murroe in Co Limerick.

Her birth came after 10 years during which the couple suffered the heartbreak of seven miscarriages and another baby girl dying shortly after birth.