Alannagh McMullan, who played newborn Georgina Curley in The Snapper, welcomed her second child, Jamie, at the National Maternity Hospital on Sunday evening. She said The Snapper was on television during the weekend of her first baby and again on Friday. She described Jamie’s arrival as her good luck charm and said he was born at 10.48pm, weighing just shy of 7lbs 12oz. McMullan said she grew up watching the on-screen birth scene and will show the film to both children as a cool memory. She called the experience a full-circle moment, since she was born in Holles Street and also appeared as the baby in The Snapper.
"Speaking to RTÉ News from the hospital she said: "The weekend I had my first baby, The Snapper was on TV, and then again, this Friday, it was on TV." "This little man arrived, so it's obviously my good luck charm." Her son, Jamie Dalton, was born on Sunday night at 10.48pm weighing just shy of 7lbs 12oz."
"McMullan said she grew up watching her own on‑screen arrival. "I used to have the video [of The Snapper scene] and I used to watch it. I definitely was too young to be watching it, but I'd watch it on repeat, and just replay myself all the time." "But it was amazing to see at the weekend as well because there are so many resemblances of myself now that I see in him and in our first baby.""
"She said she will "definitely" show the movie to both her children, as she described it as a "cool memory". "It's just a really cool memory to have to see yourself being born, even though it wasn't real. I think I was covered in Vaseline and food colouring at the time, is what I was told." "It's a full-circle moment that I was born in Holles Street and I was the baby in The Snapper and now they've another little baby born by The Snapper," said Ms McMullan."
"The National Maternity Hospital shared a photo of Ms McMullan and her baby with the hospital staff on Instagram, also describing it as a "full circle moment". "In 1993, Alannagh McMullan made her acting debut as baby Georgina when Sharon Curley gave birth in Roddy Doyle's film The Snapper.""
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