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Thurles native & Saturdays Singing Star Una Healy has signed a megabucks deal for the first pics of her baby daughter with a British glossy UK magazine.
The 30-year-old Tipperary mum, engaged to English rugby star Ben Foden, will pose for photographs with her newborn baby in the coming weeks.
The Thurles beauty gave birth to her 7lbs 13oz baby, Aoife Bell Foden, two weeks before her due expected arrival date and took her baby home last Friday evening.
On Twitter Una has posted “Thank you so much everyone for giving our beautiful baby girl such a loving welcome into the world, xx.”
It has already been confirmed that Una and her girl band ‘The Saturdays,’ will play at the Thurles Greyhound Stadium at 2.30pm on Sunday June 3rd next, (June Bank Holiday weekend.) with tickets for the event on sale at €35.00 excluding booking charges and available from www.ticketmaster.ie
 The rugby star Ben Foden has announced the birth of his daughter on Twitter: ‘I am officially a Dad, Una and baby are both amazing and healthy. I am so proud of them both.
Una Healy’s new baby weighed in at 7lbs 13oz and is to be called Aoife Belle Foden.
Obviously great thought went into choosing their new born daughter’s name. Here in Thurles ‘Aoife,’ is a very popular Irish name, meaning ‘beauty,‘ while the French word ‘Belle,’ also means ‘beautiful.’ Ben’s mother’s maiden name was ‘Bell,’ and we suspect this had also a major bearing on the couple’s name choice.
Sultry local beauty Una, first publically announced news of her pregnancy back in September of last year, expressing her and Ben’s extreme joy. The couple later announced their engagement in December last, during a gig with “The Saturday’s,” Band at Wembley Arena.
“Una from all here in Thurles Co. Tipperary, go our congratulations and best wishes to you, Ben and baby Aoife, and we look forward to seeing you back here in Thurles ‘gigging,’ on Sunday June 3rd next.”
Anyone with even the slightest doubt as to President Barack Hussein Obama’s Irishness, take a look at this short clip.
Last night, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted an incredible group of performers for a night of blues music as part of the PBS “In Performance at the White House” series.
After a little encouragement from the legendary B.B.King, the President, in true Irish fashion, took the mic from rock legend Mick Jagger, and sang a few lines of, “Sweet Home Chicago.”
Blues music has humble beginnings with roots in slavery and segregation, in a society that rarely treated black Americans with the dignity and respect that human beings deserve and expect.
So maybe on St Patrick’s day (Irish:Lá Fhéile Pádraig,) when he accepts the Irish Shamrock, he might give us a belt of “The 40 Shades Of Green,” and raise our spirits not just here back home in Tipperary, but for all Irish emigrants everywhere.
Mr President even the chorus would do:-
But most of all I miss a girl in Tipperary town
and most of all I miss her lips as soft as eiderdown
I long again to see and do the things we’ve done and seen
where the breeze is sweet as Shalimar and there’s Forty Shades of Green.
 Ben & Una pictured with local friends on a recent trip home. The Saturdays girl band member and Thurles native Una Healy cried tears of joy on stage last night , when her band-mate Rochelle Wisemanit, announced, not unexpectedly, that the gorgeous Una is to marry.
The fellow band member told a packed audience at London’s O2 arena, that Una had said ‘yes,’ to Northampton full-back, English rugby star and love of her life, Mr Ben Foden.
The 30-year-old beauty, who is currently expecting the couples first child, is due to give birth to a baby girl in March.
The girl band are currently on tour and will play in their “All Fired Up!” tour at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast tonight, followed by a gig in Dublin on Monday 19th next, when they will hit the O2 Arena.
The Thurles native stated “We’ll get married eventually but I want it to be special, not hurried.”
The flame haired beauty has been in the company of 26 year old Ben Foden, since 2008, after he persuaded his agent to approach her regarding a possible first date.
From Thurles, Co Tipperary go our congratulations and best wishes to Una and Ben, for their future happiness together.
Photo courtesy G.Willoughby.
It’s hard to describe the magic of candlelight, particularly in church at Christmas time, however we would like you to share with us and experience it for yourself.
To this end “Vocalize,” will perform their new original show “Christmas By Candlelight,” at St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Thurles, on Saturday 17th December next. The performing group “Vocalize,” are no strangers to Thurles theatre lovers and consist of some of the towns most harmonious and talented voices.
“Vocalize,” Videographer and Sound Technician, Garry Butler has been to rehearsals and sends us just a small clip of what music lovers can expect on the night.
Do come listen to the golden voices of Katie & Claire Lawless, Maria Griffin, Stacey Taylor, Peter Donnelly and Damian Sweeney, together with David McElgunn, and others under the wonderful musical direction of Geraldine Delaney. All will be performing by candlelight and you’ll feel like you’ve just taken a step back in time, when you join them for this most enchanting and emotional of local event.
Expect Christmas songs with a difference and of a new world, songs like; ‘I Need A Silent Night,’ ‘Hope Is Born Again,’ ‘A baby changes everything,’ and my own favourite ‘Christmas is.’
Of course one of the earliest stagings of Christmas music by candlelight began in the 19th century, when Cornish Miners in Moonta, South Australia (As this sites Irish /Australian able ambassador Katie O’Connell Nott will attest. “Happy Christmas from all in Tipperary & Thurles to all of you Katie.”) would gather on Christmas Eve to sing carols lit with candles, stuck to the brims of their safety hats. Today the tradition has spread around the world and is happening here in Thurles this year for the first time in St. Mary’s Church.
Tickets for this event will cost you €10 and are available from Bookworm, in Liberty Square, Thurles, with total proceeds going to a most worthy cause, the Suir Haven, Thurles Cancer support centre.
So come along to St. Mary’s and for a while, enjoy an 18th-century style Christmas by candlelit, and why not take a look around the famine museum while you chat and enjoy a cup of tea after the show.
A word to the wise: Tickets are very limited so do book early, to ensure your space.
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