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Oh Dannii’s Boy! Dannii Minogue the Mum of a Bouncing Baby Boy!

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:16:18 +0000

Dannii Minogue beats sister Kylie into Motherhood

Dannii Minogue has beaten her older sister Kylie into motherhood, giving birth to a bouncing baby boy in her home town of Melbourne.

Ethan Edward Smith, who gets his surname from Dannii’s 31-year-old British partner Kris Smith, came into the world at the Royal Women’s Hospital after the X Factor judge had to dramatically abandon plans for a home birth due to complications.

But the 38-year-old singer and her son are now in good health in the hospital’s maternity ward after the birth on Monday.

‘Kris Smith and Dannii Minogue are thrilled,’ said Dannii’s manager, Melissa Le Gear in a statement.

‘Mother and baby are doing well and Dad is very proud. They request their privacy at this special time to adjust as new parents.’

Dannii admitted last year that she had not thought about starting a family until she met Kris, a former rugby player.

Then just last month she told the Mail on Sunday’s You magazine: ‘I just never thought it was something I would do. I had never been broody. No clock was ticking.

‘And I would never have wanted to do it unless I was in the right relationship.’

Kris Smith, she said, ‘felt like the one.’

She added: ‘I’m not scared. I’m so excited. I think that’s because Kris is going to be brilliant.

‘He’s changed nappies before and I haven’t, not even my nephew’s.’

But she appears ready to have even more children, admitting she had already asked Kris during her pregnancy: ‘What if I really start enjoying this and want to have more?’

Kris, she revealed, had wanted them to have a baby as early as possible in their relationship.

There was no doubt she was looking forward to being a mother. She wrote on Facebook and Twitter: ‘Woo hoo, I’m going to be a mummy.’

Sentiments echoed by Kris, who tweeted: ‘Woo hoo – I’m going to be a daddy.’

While admitting that her parents, who live in Melbourne – where Kylie and Dannii were born – would have liked a girl because there were two nephews in the family already, Dannii joked that a little girl would be spoilt.

Kylie Minogue was believed last night (Wed) to be flying to Australia from Spain where she has been promoting her new album Aphrodite, to be with her younger sister, but she has already let the world know of her delight.

‘Congratulations to my sister Dannii and her partner Kris on the happy news!!!’ Kylie tweeted.

‘I am so excited to be an aunty again’ – a reference to the two sons of her brother, Brendan, a tv cameraman.

Man Granted Bail on Charges Relating to Irish Backpacker’s Death

admin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:20:27 +0000

A 28-year-old man has been granted bail on charges relating to the death of Irish backpacker Gearoid Walsh.

Tobias Liam Simmons heard a magistrate describe the case, heard in a court in Parramatta, west of Sydney, as tragic and emotional.

Simmons, a project administrator from the Sydney suburb of Clovelly, has been charged with manslaughter, reckless wounding and assault causing actual bodily harm. He will appear before a court again on November 18.

Mr Walsh, a 23-year-old flooring contractor, had been in Australia for five weeks when he went out in the Sydney seaside suburb of Coogee with his sister and brother. The altercation with a man outside at a late-night takeaway shop resulted in Mr Walsh falling to the pavement and striking his head.

Mr Walsh’s mother, Tressa, who had flown from Dublin to be at her son’s bedside before he died, said she did not want to see her son’s attacker jailed. She told a Sydney news conference that the other man involved in the altercation was very unlucky and she felt for him.

Man Charged Over Irish Backpacker’s Death

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:46:32 +0000

A 28-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter following the death of an Irish backpacker in a Sydney beachside suburb.

The man walked into a Sydney police station after the mother of 23-year-old Gearoid Walsh, from Dublin, pleaded with her son’s alleged attacker to come forward.

The man, who has not been named, has also been charged with reckless wounding and assault. He has been refused bail and will appear by videolink before a NSW court on Saturday.

The development came after the courageous mother of Mr Walsh said she did not want her son’s attacker to go to jail.

‘I’d really like to say that as a mother I really feel for this guy who got into a fight with Gearoid,’ said Mrs Tressa Walsh at a Sydney news conference. ‘I am heartbroken for him because we don’t blame him.

‘We don’t want him to serve time in prison. I think he was just very, very unlucky.’

Police had earlier released CCTV footage of a man they believe could assist with their inquiries into the attack on Mr Walsh, whose life support system was switched off as his mother sat at his bedside.

Paramedics called to a street in Coogee feared at first that Mr Walsh was dead. He appeared to have stopped breathing.

Police said he had become involved in an altercation with another man and received severe head injuries when he was struck and fell to the footpath.

He had been drinking with his brother – who lives in Australia – at a number of hotels in the Coogee area and became involved in an argument with a man at a take-away food shop.

Things quietened down and Mr Walsh and his brother left, but returned shortly afterwards and the argument started up again. It was then that Mr Walsh was injured.

His mother said the one positive thing that had emerged from her son’s death was that six other Australians had been given the gift of life from Gearoid’s organs.

Man Talks to Police Over Irish Backpacker Death

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:53:11 +0000

A 28-year-old man is talking to police after the mother of an Irish backpacker fatally injured in a Sydney fight pleaded with his attacker to come forward.

The man walked into a Sydney police station with a lawyer and has been answering detectives’ questions.

Gearoid Walsh, a 23-year-old floor contractor from Dublin, had been on life support since he was found close to death on a footpath in the Sydney seaside resort of Coogee last week end.