{"id":259006,"date":"2025-12-31T01:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259006\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:11:16","slug":"dave-kearney-and-becca-mehigan-mark-special-family-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259006\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Kearney and Becca Mehigan mark special family milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past 12 months have flown in for Becca Mehigan and Dave Kearney in the blink of an eye, and suddenly their son is one.<\/p>\n<p>Becca and Dave&#8217;s, who <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2023\/06\/10\/entertainment\/celebrity\/dave-kearney-wedding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tied the knot<\/a> in June 2023, lives changed for the better on December 28, when they <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/01\/02\/entertainment\/celebrity\/becca-mehigan-welcome-baby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welcomed their little man, Zach Michael Kearney, to the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the year since they welcomed Zach, Becca sweetly spoke of how it has both softened and strengthened her, as well as broken her down and rebuilt her.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_3798241578490627357.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Becca Mehigan\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2090489\"  \/>Pic: Becca Mehigan\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Becca shared a gorgeous black-and-white snap that shows her and Dave celebrating Zach on his first birthday, holding a birthday cake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;One whole year of loving you,&#8217; the mum-of-one wrote. &#8216;People told me the days and nights could feel long, but the years would pass in a blink. I never quite believed just how fast it would go.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_3798241578473829157.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Becca Mehigan\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2090490\"  \/>Pic: Becca Mehigan\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This year cracked me wide open \u2014 breaking and rebuilding me, softening and strengthening me, showing me every emotion under the sun, and giving me a love so enormous it\u2019s hard to put into words,&#8217; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The best day of our lives was the first day of yours. Happy first birthday, little man. You have taught us and given us so much in such a short time. We adore you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_3798241578566115032.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Becca Mehigan\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2090492\" style=\"width:500px;height:auto\"  \/>Pic: Becca Mehigan\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Another adorable snap shows little Zach in a party hat on his first birthday, perched on the floor beside a big helium balloon shaped as the number one.<\/p>\n<p>Not only has it been a big year for their family, but both the Mehigan side and the Kearney side have welcomed adorable new additions over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta-Ai_3610043119324678127.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Becca Mehigan\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2090487\"  \/>Pic: Becca Mehigan\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>In October, Becca&#8217;s cousin, Mark Mehigan, <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/10\/21\/entertainment\/celebrity\/doireann-garrihy-mark-baby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welcomed his first child with his wife, Doireann Garrihy<\/a>, a baby girl named Rosie.<\/p>\n<p>And on the Kearney side of things, Dave&#8217;s brother, Rob, <a href=\"https:\/\/rollercoaster.ie\/baby\/jess-redden-birth-second-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">welcomed his second child with his wife, Jess Redden<\/a>, a son named Ross, whom they named after his brother, who tragically died as a child. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The past 12 months have flown in for Becca Mehigan and Dave Kearney in the blink of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-259006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115811522012902145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}