Covid-positive mother overjoyed as gives birth to first baby of 2021
Jennifer McWilliams tested positive for Covid-19 on December 22 despite having no symptoms
Jennifer McWilliams with Brody: We cannot believe that he is the first baby born in Ireland in 2021
Sat, 02 Jan, 2021 - 21:35
Liz Dunphy
The first baby born in Ireland in 2021 was little Brody McWilliam Brown, whose mum had recently tested positive for Covid-19. He s great. He s doing so well, his mum Jennifer McWilliams told the Irish Examiner from the National Maternity Hospital. It s a bit crazy. You want to leave all that [Covid-19] in 2020 but the first baby born was to a mum who had it.
Updated: 1 Jan 2021, 19:23
IRELAND is facing over 9,000 Covid-19 cases being confirmed in the coming days, NPHET has warned.
Professor Philip Nolan made the grim prediction this evening as a record 1,754 new infections were confirmed tonight.
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There have been 93,532 cases confirmed in Ireland so farCredit: PA:Press Association
A further 11 people have also died after testing positive for the virus, bringing the country s death toll to 2,248.
In total, there have been 93,532 cases confirmed since the pandemic struck in February last year.
Some 504 patients are currently battling coronavirus in hospital, of which 47 are in ICU.
There has been 46 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
Joy for mum diagnosed with Covid-19 after safe birth of Ireland s first baby of 2021
Brody McWilliams Brown was born to mum Jennifer McWilliams at four seconds past midnight
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Brody McWilliams Brown was born safely at four seconds past midnight (Image: National Maternity Hospital)
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Updated: 1 Jan 2021, 13:54
A FUNERAL service for Emma McManus, a daughter-in-law of Irish horse racing magnate JP McManus, is to take place in Barbados next Friday.
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Emma McManus with her husband John and father-in-law JP in 2011Credit: Don MacMonagle
Emma, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, had been preparing to celebrate New Year’s Eve with loved ones at a private residence on the grounds of the luxury Sandy Lane resort, Barbados.
The residence was purchased in the late 1990s by JP McManus, financier Dermot Desmond, and horse breeder John Magnier.
Emma, late of London and Blackrock Co Dublin, is survived by her husband John and their three “adored” young children Milly, Lauren, and Annie, and “deeply regretted by her heartbroken parents and parents-in-law, Peter and Paula, JP and Noreen, her grandmother Veronica, siblings Juliet, Katie and Nick“, a funeral notice read.
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