Room at the inn after surprise baby arrival
A COUPLE took their room service requests to extreme levels yesterday when a Christmas baby made a shock arrival in a busy hotel.
Sarah Cuneen, 33, could not make it to hospital in time and a Waterford bedroom became the delivery suite for the tot.
Dad David said: “I was literally a minute from delivering my own child.
“The paramedic just made it through the door when the baby came.”
The couple’s fourth child, weighing 9lb 8oz, was born at 9am. David and Sarah, from Dooradoyle, Limerick, had travelled especially for Sarah to give birth at University Hospital Waterford.
They were with their other children Emily, five, Danielle, three, and 23-month-old Ben, at Dooley’s Hotel when she went into a rapid labour.
David said: “One minute she was getting pains and literally five minutes later she was roaring at me to call me an ambulance and telling me we weren’t going to make it to hospital in time.”
Mum and baby were taken to hospital and admitted to the maternity unit.
Hotel manager Mags Darrer said: “It was a little bit chaotic.
“We are 70 years in business, but this is our first baby born in the hotel.” Sarah and David Amanda posted a video of herself holding a box with a No 1 on it, and sang, “On the first day of Christmas, Amanda said to me, d’you fancy a cup of tea, or a gin?” See what she did there? If so, please explain it to the rest of us. Amanda suggested there was “no need to buy an expensive hat for Ascot this year, just re-use your Christmas wreath instead”. Then she put a wreath on her head. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? Did she lose a bet? Is she on crystal meth? Amanda talks about slaving away on her festive menu, but then – HO HO HO – the joke is that really she’s ordering it all from M&S.
“Joke” in the very loosest sense of the word, obviously. On this video, there is no sound. Unclear whether this is intentional or a technical issue but let’s not worry about why, let’s just appreciate it. Same outfit, same set-up but a box with a – can you guess? – 2 on it. Today “Handy Mandy” pulled out an ironing board and suggested if you were short of space you could use yours as a work surface. Baffling. Sitting in her dressing room, Amanda explains she’ll be giving her daughter hair crimpers for Christmas, and then kisses them. “Obviously don’t kiss your hair straighteners when they’re on, because they’ll be hot,” she advises. Now Amanda is pretending to be her dog, Rudie, singing, “On the sixth day of Christmas.” She then promotes a shop she’s not being paid to promote.
Is she having a nervous breakdown, or is it us? The sound is back and she’s singing again... this time about baubles for the tree filled with gin. Hers actually still appear to be full.
Curiouser and curiouser.