JANUARY 2007

No Inishowen New Year babies born at local hospitals

The Maternity wards of Letterkenny General and Altnagelvin reported a quieter than usual New Year's for births. At Letterkenny General, the first birth of the year came at around 10am when a baby girl was born to a Dunfanaghy woman. A midwife at the hospital added there had been no births on New Year's Eve.

It was a similar story at Altnagelvin where no children were born close enough to midnight on the 31st December to have 'just missed out' on the title of the first birth of '07. That honour went to a boy from the Moss Park area of Derry who was born at 11.37am on the 1st of January. There was one other child born on New Year's Day - a girl from Brook Hill in Derry City. She was born at 5:27pm.

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