{"id":262242,"date":"2026-01-01T20:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262242\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T20:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:49:13","slug":"meet-the-first-kerry-baby-born-in-the-county-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262242\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the first Kerry baby born in the county in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meet the first baby born in Kerry in 2026: Louie Kurian Johns was born at University Hospital Kerry (UHK) at 3.22am on January 1, New Year's Day. He's pictured here with his proud mom, Emil Emmanuel and staff nurses with UHK Staff nurses Teresa McGrath and Aoife Greaney. Photo by Domnick Walsh.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KN Baby.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Meet the first baby born in Kerry in 2026: Louie Kurian Johns was born at University Hospital Kerry (UHK) at 3.22am on January 1, New Year&#8217;s Day. He&#8217;s pictured here with his proud mom, Emil Emmanuel and staff nurses with UHK Staff nurses Teresa McGrath and Aoife Greaney. Photo by Domnick Walsh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Kerry\u2019s population officially increased by one on New Year\u2019s Day as baby boy Louie Kurian Johns become the first baby born in the county in 2026!<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The new bundle of joy was delivered happy and healthy at 3.22am on January 1 in University Hospital Kerry (UHK) to proud mom Emil Emmanuel from Tralee. Emil herself also works as a registered nurse in UHK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The new arrival weighed in just over seven pounds with both mom and baby doing well afterwards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet the first baby born in Kerry in 2026: Louie Kurian Johns was born at University Hospital Kerry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,887,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-262242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-fergus-dennehy","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115821816330532722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262242","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=262242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}