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18 April 2009: Cute brothers Jay and Rocco may be Ireland's most famous twins but their second birthday on Monday will be a quiet affair. The grandsons of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will celebrate at a family gathering in Portugal.
As the sons of Westlife's Nicky Byrne and Bertie's daughter Georgina, and the nephews of successful author Cecilia Ahern, the boys are no strangers to the spotlight, but there are no plans for a big birthday bash.
The pair, who have their own bebo page, were born by c-section at Dublin's Holles Street Hospital six weeks early and had to spend the first month of their lives in the hospital.
The boys weighed just slightly more than a bag of sugar between them when they were born, with Jay weighing just 2lb 13oz and Rocco a minuscule 2lb 11oz.
Since then, they have been thriving, growing sturdy and strong at their lavish Malahide home.
According to their grandfather they are "full of energy. They love fun and games". They even poked fun at their famous grandfather before Christmas when he broke his leg and had it in a plaster cast. "They were imitating me everywhere and falling on the ground pretending they had hurt their legs," Bertie said.
The twins have also appeared on the Late Late Show with their Dad as a surprise for one of Nicky's biggest fans, Shauna Byrne (10), just two months before she sadly lost her battle with cystic fibrosis in February.
Last year for their milestone first birthday, champagne flowed at a family party in the Grand Hotel in Malahide but this year is more of a family event. Doting dad Nicky, took a year off from his chart-topping band to spend time with Georgina and the twins and has said he still wants to have more children.
"Hopefully we're not done yet - we would love to have more kids. "I have always said I would have five," Nicky said. "I don't know if I can convince Georgina on that, but we'll see," he later revealed.
| Source: herald.ie. - Clodagh Sheehy
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| WESTLIFER NICKY BYRNE’S TWIN BABIES ARE CHRISTENED |
16 July 2007 – Between them, they still weigh less than a 10kg bag of spuds but with family connections like these, they will never want for anything. Rocco and Jay Byrne’s little christening party in Malahide, north Dublin, included a top restaurateur, a best-selling author and a multi-platinum boyband and, oh yes, their granddad, the Taoiseach.
| Proud parents Georgina Ahern and her husband, Westlife Nicky Byrne, had beaming smiles across their faces as they showed off their twin boys outside their local St Sylvester’s Church. |
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| And pulling up just behind their silver Bentley was the black Mercedes containing Bertie and Cecelia Ahern, the girls’ mother, Miriam and her current partner restaurateur Terry McCoy. |
| Westlifers Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Shane Filan were not far behind, with their partners, with band manager Louis Walsh following a little later. |
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| The sun shone brightly as Nicky and Georgina brought their precious twins into the church. Both babies were dressed in little white tailor suits, and did not seem remotely fazed by the cameras. |
| Nicky revealed how much the pair had grown. Jay was just 2lbs 13oz at birth and Rocco even tinier 2lbs 11, he said, but as of last week they weighed a healthy bouncing 9lbs 6oz and 8lbs 11oz each. The boys were born prematurely by Caesarean section at Holles Street in April and spent their first month in hospital. “It’s a very special day” said Nicky. “We’ve had three months off to get them home and see them thrive. It’s just fantastic. They grow so quickly, it’s amazing”. |
| Georgina’s father, Bertie, said he hoped his grandsons would go into the entertainment world rather than politics. “I think entertainment is a safer game” he joked. He said he had been out to see the young family every Sunday for the past six or seven weeks, and had been thoroughly enjoying being a granddad. And while he admitted that the afternoon timing of the christening had caused him to miss seeing his beloved Dubs play in Croker, the Taoiseach vowed that party would go on “around and after the match”. |
| There’s only one team the twins will be supporting as they grow up, though, the front of the special order of service booklet bore a picture of the pair in tiny Dublin jerseys. Nicky Byrne Snr said he hoped his grandchildren would follow his and his son’s example, and get into football and music when they grew up. He said Nicky was a great father who loved playing with the babies and having a house full of toys. Around 150 close friends and family packed into the picturesque stone church. |
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| Opening the service, parish preist Fr Gerard Tanham said Nicky and Georgina were there in part “to give thanks for the gift of two lovely children”. He said the baptism would give Rocco and Jay “the strength to be able to face whatever comes their way in life”. Cecilia Ahern was godmother to Rocco, while Nicky’s younger brother, Adam, was his godfather. Jay’s godmother was Nicky’s sister, Gillian, and her husband, Mark Gallagher was godfather. |
| Louise Walsh fresh from the previous night’s Barbara Streisand concert, said that having children was all Nicky had ever wanted. “He’s more excited about it than making a record” he added. I go to all the weddings and christenings. We’re like a family now. It’s a big day for them”. |
| Westlife member Mark Feehily: “Looking back to when we were 18, if we were told we’d all be having babies now we wouldn’t have believed it. It would have been incomprehensible. But I think this is just the stage we are in now. It’s great. You have to take it as it comes and it’s fantastic”. |
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| Source: www.dailymail.co.uk.
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| NICKY BYRNE HAS TWIN BOYS |
Saturday 21 April 2007 - Westlife singer Nicky Byrne is celebrating after becoming the father of twin sons yesterday. The 28-year old had to rush from his band’s gig in Dublin on Thursday night to Holles Street hospital to be with wife Georgina as she went in to labour.
| However, after witnessing Georgina, daughter of Irish Premier Bertie Ahern – give birth of Rocco and Jay yesterday morning at 9.55am by caesarian section he was back performing with the boys last night. |
| Source: www.entertainmentwise.com |
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