| Bertie’s a Grandpa!  By
Debbie McGoldrick
IRISH Prime Minister Bertie Ahern added another very impressive title to
his name last week first time grandpa, as his eldest daughter Georgina gave
birth to preemie boy twins in Dublin.
Georgina and her musician hubby Nicky Byrne, he of the band Westlife, welcomed
their fraternal twins last Friday at Holles Street Hospital. The little
ones arrived way ahead of their June/July due date, and had to be delivered
by c-section when Georgina went into labor early.
Happily they’re doing great, and weighed in at just over three pounds
each. They’ll remain in the hospital a while longer, however, as a
precautionary measure.
Their names? Georgina and Nicky eschewed traditional Gaelic names for untraditional
celebrity ones – Rocco and Jay. The world will soon get a glimpse
of them, a spokesperson for the couple says, and they won’t have to
fork out money to buy a celebrity magazine in the process.
“They are not interested in selling the pictures because, unlike their
wedding, they feel this involves not just them, but other lives. They have
not had offers, because they said they would not sell the pictures, but
they had inquiries,” said spokesperson Joanne Byrne.
The couple got a rough ride over flogging pictures of their nuptials in
2003 to Hello! magazine for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Bertie himself
was barred from posing for any snaps that weren’t approved by the
magazine, which he also received plenty of guff for at home.
With an election looming in Ireland, and the propensity of politicians to
kiss babies on the campaign trail, lucky Bertie now has his very own little
mascots who will undoubtedly garner lots of “oohs” and “aahs”
from the electorate.
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