What a line-up: Limerick hospital celebrates birth of quads, triplets and twins

They’re calling it the Christmas-Tree Formation, but it’s no longer typical of any moves gracing football stadiums.

Instead, it’s been adopted to describe the arrival within a relatively short timeframe of quadruplets, triplets, twins and singletons at the neonatal unit of University Maternity Hospital Limerick.

Making up the back four were quads born to Lisa Fenton, from Caherconlish, Co Limerick, whom the hospital says “made a little bit of history” when she gave birth on October 5 to the first foursome born in Limerick in 50 years.