IRELAND’S first-ever sextuplets remained in intensive care in hospital last night, after their delivery on Friday, 14 weeks early.
The six babies were born in a successful Caesarean section birth involving 30 medical staff at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital.
The babies’ young mother, Nuala Conway, was also recovering in hospital after the birth as it emerged that she and her husband Austin had kept news of the sextuplet pregnancy secret from most of the tiny community where they live.
Friends and neighbours from their rural home in the Dunamore area of Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland, last night showered the couple with their best wishes.
