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Welcome to Inishowen’s New Year
baby
06.01.09
Buncrana couple
celebrate the birth of their first child
by Simon McGeady, Inishowen
Independent
WELCOME to the world, Leagh Sarah Boyce. The first
Inishowen baby of the New Year was born at
Letterkenny General Hospital at 8.09pm on New Year’s
Day. She weighed 7lb 9oz. Leagh Sarah’s parents,
Diana Glenn and Kevin Boyce from Meenagorey,
Buncrana, were thrilled with their new arrival. |
“It’s a great feeling.
I’ve had my first baby on the first day of the New
Year,” said Diana, speaking from hospital a day
after her daughter was born. The new mother had gone
into hospital the night before New Year's Eve. Diana
was one of six mothers to give birth at Letterkenny
General on New Year’s Day.
The first child of 2009 at Letterkenny General was
an 8lb 7oz girl born |
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to Convoy woman Heather
Buchanan. That birth was registered at 9.46am on New
Year’s Day. At the North West’s other main hospital,
Altnagelvin, the first birth of the New Year, also a
girl, took place at 1.01am on Thursday morning.
There were four births in total at the Waterside
hospital’s maternity unit on New Year’s Day, all of
them to Northern mothers. Of the babies delivered,
three are girls and one is a boy.
Two of the babies were born to mothers from Derry
city and the other babies to mothers from County
Derry. The first Inishowen birth of 2008, Jamie Ryan
Doyle, was also born to a woman from Buncrana. |
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