Three days after three sisters give birth a fourth does too

A WOMAN whose three sisters gave birth on the same day has had her baby just three days later.

An overdue Christina Murray gave birth to little Annalise in Mayo General Hospital after her three sisters had two boys and a girl in the same hospital.

Ms Murray had been hoping her daughter would arrive on the same day as her new baby cousins who arrived hours apart.

Her sister Mairead Fitzpatrick had a little boy she named Thomas Óg, sister Joeline Godfrey gave birth to Sorcha and Bernie Ward delivered Phelim on September 1 with Annalise arriving on September 4.

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The four sisters are from Cloonfad in Roscommon and insist the simultaneous births were not planned.

Speaking to RTÉ  Mairead Fitzpatrick said Mayo General Hospital had never before had a family on a multiple booking.

"We used to say to them there were four of us expecting but we just never realised it would all happen on the one day," she said.

It was Ms Fitzpatrick's first baby, her sister Joelyn's second, Bernie's third and Christina's fourth.