Mother’s New York drama ends in fairytale with daughter’s birth

When Cian and Polly McCourt moved from Ireland to the US, little did they suspect that the arrival of the newest Big Apple of their eye would get more views than a hit Broadway performance.

On Monday Polly McCourt, who is from Oxfordshire in Britain, realised she was going into labour while at the family’s apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

“I was starting to feel worse and worse, and I thought, ‘Oh, this is not good’,” Ms McCourt, 39, told the New York Daily News.