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THE FIRST BABY born this year is believed to have been delivered just minutes after midnight in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.
The hospital confirmed today that baby boy, Arlo Robert Emmet was born at 4 minutes past midnight this morning.
Baby Arlo, who weighed in at 4.2kg (9lbs 4oz), was welcomed by his parents Nicole and Robert Emmet from Ashbourne.
Just two minutes after Arlo entered the world, baby Mirha was delivered in the Coombe Hospital in Dublin.
Born at 12.06am Mirha, weighing 2.21kg (4lbs 14oz) was welcomed into the world by her mother Sundas Khan who is originally from Pakistan.
Speaking to The Journal, Sundas said: “Apart from my husband, we have no family here. We felt completely welcomed at the Coombe and the staff were wonderful in bringing Mirha safely into the world.”
Welcome to the @CoombeHospital baby Mirha and her mother Sundas Khan. Our New Year baby arrived at 6 minutes past midnight weighing 4 lbs 14 oz. We wish great happiness to all mothers and babies born today. @HSELive @DMHospitalGroup pic.twitter.com/WcHnPb7yLq
— The Coombe Hospital (@CoombeHospital) January 1, 2024
Outside of Dublin, the first baby born was Amelia to mum Danielle at Letterkenny Hospital in Donegal, at 12.13am, weighing in at 3.65kg (8lbs 30z).
With reporting from Diarmuid Pepper.
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If truck drivers are not damaging bridges, they’re driving through level crossing barriers as they close!
We need more Gardai checking truck heights and arresting those who break lights and go through barriers!
@johnny reynolds: Peak hours, busy crossings such as Merrion road, send a message that this sort of driving won’t be tolerated…!
@Dub_Right:
Mostly non national truck drivers who probably can’t understand the signs.
Saw a truck jammed under a low bridge in Waterford recently and seriously a child would not have tried to pass under it was so obviously impossible.
@Mark DeFriest:
There is a reason road signage is symbolic based as opposed to using words. There is a fair old chance that foreign drivers understand what a picture of a train or a gate or a bridge means. They do have driving licences and very often are multilingual. A little bit of xenophobic ignorance creeping out in your post
@Mark DeFriest: Can’t just blame the foreign reg trucks,, plenty going around in Irish reg trucks… and sure the signs are in metric also…
@Dub_Right: now this is where you need the red thumb on comments because he’s talking complete balderdash
Yeah, but do they know what a foot is?
@Dub_Right: maybe we should ban all trucks off Irish roads. Would that suit you you moron
That’s the problem with foreign bridges carrying trains in Ireland , they don’t know the local trucks .
@Ken Hayden: love it – made me laugh out loud
Trucks hit bridges 2 days in a row 2 weeks ago. Public transport in this country is so unbelievably unreliable. And they keep trying to force cars out of Dublin City…
@seanie: I think the trains are generally very reliable. Much more than a few years ago. They’ve made huge improvements. The trains I take are on time 95%+ of the time and anytime they have been late it’s only been 5-10 minutes. It’s the traffic once I get to the city that sometimes catches me out.
As a cyclist it really strikes her me how dangerous trucks are in the city.
They know their truck and bridges are visible and have height labels , yet they still hit them.
I wonder will the RSA blame the bridge for not wearing a hi vis and helmet
@brian magee: but at least the bridge is where it’s supposed to be.. Not 2 or 3 abreast and taking up the whole road.
@Ollie Payne: did you not read the article? The truck isn’t supposed to be under the bridge , and it does take up the whole road
Should you not lose your license for this sort of screw up?
@Random_paddy: if the haulage company received a hefty fine for every bridge strike the drivers would be a lot more cautious about their heights.
@Random_paddy: no use revoking their license, there are just too many of these morons. Ceasing the trucks may work, teaching the truck companies a lesson so they teach their staff.
I wonder what part of 3m do they not understand
Maybe if the trucks were installed with sensors like the ones they have in cars to warn when reversing. If the trucks had them for heights as in bridges then this would not happen. If the driver hits the bridge after ignoring the sensor warning then he and the company should be fined at the least. Just a thought.
@gary mullen: I’m sure your parking sensors work just fine at 60kmh do they ?
@Ollie Payne: firstly it wasnt parking sensors, that was an example, a gps warning system of the height of the bridge your approaching would be more like it, secondly thats a 30kmph zone not 60kmph and finally I dont see you coming up with any suggestions so why do you take your sarcastic comments and stick them up your wanna be popular opinionated arse ya Muppet!
Headline :…..Truck hits bridge for second time today would make you believe that when the driver was going one direction hit it and came back same way. How many other bridges did he pass under and not hit.
@brian magee: cyclist are the dangerous ones. Not the trucks.
@Nigel Cleary: I guess your prefer fiction over fact
@Ollie Payne: trucks are killing people on the roads on a regular basis , cyclists aren’t.
Rather than name calling I’ll stick to facts
The second time today !!!! WTF !! Only in Ireland
The second time today is a bridge to far
@Nucky:
No, not only here.
@Nucky: I hate that ‘only in Ireland’ rubbish. Move somewhere else if you don’t like it.
@Martin Byrne: It’s part of our culture, maybe you move somewhere else.
@Nucky: Amien St, Dublin is only in Ireland? You can’t be serious!
@Nucky:
@Nucky: I think you’ll find they have trucks and accidents in other countries too. In fact, many of the lorries coming through Dublin are from abroad.
@Nucky: He didn’nt believe it happened the first time lol.
Metal frame a number of metres back from each side of bridge and same height…
Just install an idiot bar each side of the bridge the same height and let that take all the dings from the idiot truck drivers.
@Jimmy Ireland: The did that on East Wall Road and they still hit the bridge.
@Jimmy Ireland: best post so far. Sounds cheap and effective.
@Jimmy Ireland: so every truck driver is an idiot. You absolute tool. Typical ignorance
Great. ..
Cheap labour.
Level crossings have to go. Put in flyovers, simples. It will only cost about 55 billion euros.
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