Angels

By her Mammy Erin   Córa Rose was born on 6th December 2021 and shares her birthday with her great grandmother. After a healthy pregnancy and smooth labour, she came into this world weighing 7lbs 4oz and I will never forget the feeling of holding her on my chest,...

  By her mum Niamh    Saoirse was amazing. She was the youngest of our three girls and a real mix of both her big sisters, Alannah and Leah. She was confident, brave, kind and a bit of a divil. We were so happy. Saoirse couldn’t wait to start school, she...

Cian Neary, by his Mum Evelyn (founder of Cian's Kennels)   Cian was our one in a million. I know everyone says that, but he was. He was funny and laid back and he could get himself out of trouble by turning on the charm! I was always on the road with him,...

By her Mum Anitha Emma was born on her due date, 1st June 2010, our second daughter. She was a tomboy, loved rough and tumble and dresses didn’t suit her at all, unlike her older sister Katie. She was happy and content and loved a bit of divilment. We always said that...

By his Mum Sabrina  I don’t know the odds of being born into this world a perfectly formed, content little boy but for Shane and myself Jack was without a doubt our - one in a million.  As a baby Jack had those big beautiful blond curls, the type that were just adored...

by her Mum Marian   We found out we were expecting our second baby on my husband's birthday in 2016. It was a shock to us as we had just had our first little girl the previous September. The pregnancy was a normal pregnancy, no complications and everything was...

We were so thrilled when Daragh came to complete our family, or so we thought at the time! There was 20 months between Daragh and his older brother Nathan and when we noticed that Daragh wasn’t meeting his developmental milestones at around 2 and a half, we realised...

  Ben loved Batman. All through playschool it was Fireman Sam and that morphed into Batman, but it was the 1960s Batman, which is so cheesy but he loved it. He would dress up just to go to the shopping centre. A toy car from the 1960s Batman sits in the cabinet...

Our Mighty Max had an amazing life for eight years. He had such an appetite for life and for fun and that rubbed off on everyone he met. He had an infectious laugh and smile. The focus wasn’t on him being sick because that’s not how he lived and that stays with me now...

Aoife was the first grandchild on the Hendrick side of the family when she was born in August 2007, and to say her arrival brought an overflow of elated emotion and happiness would be understating by far the impact she had on so many.   As new first-time parents...