Anxious dad-to-be rings radio show while waiting in carpark for partner to give birth

Little Philip Howard arrived into the world at 9.27am on Thursday - the couple's first boy after parenting five girls. Picture: Louise Walsh.

Two breakfast show presenters turned into birthing partners live on air when an anxious dad of five girls rang a radio station while waiting in a hospital carpark for his partner to give birth to their first son.

Stringent Covid-19 restrictions meant that Philip Howard had to wait in the carpark of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth for a text to tell him his partner Caroline McDowell was ready to give birth.