Ireland's sextuplet parents want quiet life

The parents of Ireland's first sextuplets have said they will shun publicity and return home to their small rural community as soon as the babies are well enough to leave hospital.

Nuala Conway gave birth to six babies in five minutes in a Belfast hospital on Saturday.

The four girls and two boys weighed between 640g and 1kg and were delivered by caesarean section by a team of medics.

The birth was 14 weeks early.

A neonatal consultant said that the Conways, both in their 20s, were "keen for people to know this birth was not the result of IVF".