The mother of Ireland's first sextuplets has revealed she ignored medical advice and put her faith in God over the multiple birth.
According to Sky News, Nuala Conway, 26, from Dunamore in County Tyrone, was warned about the high risks of carrying six foetuses and was advised to abort several of them at 14 weeks.
But, in an interview with the Sunday Express, she and her husband Austin explained how they refused at allow doctors to intervene. The couple told the paper: '"They told us about the risks we faced if we went ahead with the pregnancy." "These babies are a wonderful gift from God," she said, adding: "Whatever God laid out for our lives we were taking it."
The six babies, Ursula, Austin, Shannon, Karla, Eoghan and Kerrie, were born in a successful Caesarean section birth involving 30 medical staff at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital last month.
Over £6.3m is to be invested in road improvements for the Down area this year, it has been announced.
Transport Minister Conor Murphy said works would be progressed ob A24 Shore Road, Kilclief, Strangford, which will improve forward visibility on this stretch of carriageway, reports build.ie.
Junction improvements will also be carried out on the Magheralone Road, Annacloy to increase sightline visibility.
Meath 1-26 Louth 0-10
Meath powered to victory at Pairc Tailteann this afternoon, claiming a well-merited 19-point win against Louth in the Nicky Rackard Cup.
Meath led by 0-6 to 0-4 in the 21st minute after an entertaining opening quarter in which the sides were evenly matched. However the Royals suddenly took a stranglehold and profited from some clinical forward play, scoring the next six points without reply in a 10-minute spell, reports the Irish Examiner.
Meath held a 0-12 to 0-4 lead with five minutes to go before half-time, but Louth kept in touch thanks to the efforts of Diarmuid Murphy who hit four first-half points, Meath still led 0-12 to 0-5 at the interval.
Assisted by a strong wind in the second half, the home side kept control with Peter Dornan and Stephen Clynch in superb form. Murphy did his best to keep Louth in touch, scoring all of their second-half points, but Meath had laid the early groundwork for success and ran out easy winners.
The mother of Ireland's first sextuplets has revealed she ignored medical advice and put her faith in God over the multiple birth.
