Limerick welcomes the first baby of 2018

The first baby born in Ireland in 2018 arrived in Limerick at just seven seconds past midnight yesterday.

The boy weighed 3.26kg (approximately seven pounds) and Margaret Quigley, director of midwifery at University Hospital Limerick, said both the new arrival and his mother are doing well.

“I suppose he is blessed among women because it was followed by two more births of two girls, it was a steady night here in Universal Maternity Hospital,” Ms Quigley told RTÉ’s News at One.