High-5!! 

I'm pretty sure that's an arm....... 

4-2 to the Boys

Well the wee fetus has turned out to be a boy. We had the 21-week scan yesterday and even I could tell it was a bloke! He is slightly above average weight and all looks perfect. A couple of scans will be posted soon (including a High-5 which is pretty neat). Ois and Osc are thrilled "So that'll be 4 boys and only 2 girls in the house. Brilliant!". Names we have come up with so far to annoy my mother include Cavan, Mossie, Moses and Cruz.

UCD 150 Celebration

My Alma Mater, University College Dublin, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year and there is a special event being held on April 12th to recognise achievements of past graduates of the Engineering School, and to look forward to the future.

One of the items intended for the day is a brief archive of past graduates and what they have got up to. So if you are willing to supply some career details/highlights/images etc, please e-mail Conor Heneghan or David Timoney for a form which you can fill out. Please spread freely to other graduates of UCD Engineering & Architecture.

Ciarán and Heathers Wedding - Superb

It's not often I comment on a wedding but last weekends wedding of Ciarán and Heather was absolutely brilliant. From the lovely church in Tinahely to the beautifal location for the reception in Ballybeg House to the phenomenal catering, great crowd, top atmosphere and razor sharp speeches, we all left with huge grins on our faces.
Of course I'm now getting flashbacks of the picture shown by Eoin O'B of Ciarán in First Year Eng with his German 'tache. Shudder.
And they organised the whole thing in 3 months! Both looked stunning and the wicklow air meant no hangover the following morning.
C&T survived baby-sitting our three monsters for the night. A very successful weeekend all in all.
And Mark _did_ look like a vet, no matter what he says.

Irish Examiner Ad this Friday

We have a job ad in this weeks Irish Examiner on Friday! This is very much the next phase of the company's development.

Due to even more demand for our services, we need both full-time and contract software developers with a background in Custom Database Application development, Java/C++/C# development, Enterprise Frameworks or Network Management software. As always, the work is based in Co Cork and all interested applicants should head on over to www.argolon.com.

This is a great opportunity for developers who like to be on the bleeding-edge of Enterprise software integration and want to get in early with a fast-growing company.

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Orla has a baby

My younger sister Orla gave birth to her first child last Saturday around 7.30 am. Hannah Rose is a wee titch, weighing in at a little over 6 lbs. She is an absolute stunner and all are well and at home already. Nana Rose is allegedly chuffed that all her granddaughters have Rose as their middle name. Our boys are now totally confused with two cousin Hannah's. This summer should be fun with all the girly cousins on holidays together.

Two Upcoming weddings

We're thrilled to hear that both Ciarán O'Colmáin and Ethna Winter are getting married (Ciarán in February and Ethna in January) Not many left to go now from the UCD Eng class of '90.......
Ethna is having her celebrations in Tattersalls near Fairyhouse which is about 2 miles from where I lived until I was 6 years old. Great place.

Ethna's other great news was the recent birth of her son Felix. I've already cracked particularly weak"Odd Couple" jokes about her lad meeting our Oscar for the first time.

It's a baby alright

Had our scan today. Wee blobby is right on the predicted size for 9 weeks, 3 days. We expected Sibéal to be rivetted by the ultrasound but in fact she found the roller blind in the doctor's office to be more interesting. All looks good. Not twins. Sigh of relief. Catherine has the finger rash so is pretty sure what it is going to be. Next scan probably in 8 weeks. Now for a nickname.

Blog Now available via RSS

You can now subscribe to the RSS feed for this blog. For the life of me I can't think why but hey, it's there if you've nothing better to read. Use: http://conoro.blogspot.com/atom.xml

And the most important news of all - another wee blighter on the way! Not due until next July. Scan tomorrow. Anyone got an Espace they want to swap for a Zafira? Fingers crossed it isn't twins!

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So I finally moved over to Blogspot so that publishing of this is now trivial and doesn't require an
ftp server somewhere. Hopefully this means I'll post news more often. Also looking at MSN Spaces but I'll stick with this for the time being. Tons of bits and pieces which I haven't reported on over the past few months; new niece Rachel, new house in Old Chapel, Argolon work expanding nicely, waistline not expanding but not shrinking, and no christmas shopping done yet.

More top class baby news from the Roberts'. Matthew Roberts was born 5th March, weighing in at 6lb 6oz. After a rough few days, the wee blighter is thriving. Sleep deprivation, sore nipples and post-natal hair loss are the order of the day, but lucklily that's just Frank, Helen is doing great.