By Louise Hogan ©Independent.ie
Ireland is experiencing a baby boom with the highest number of births last year in more than a century.
The reason behind the surge appears to be down to the baby boomers of the 1980s going on to have their own children.
During 2008 there were a staggering 75,065 babies registered -- exactly 1,001 more than the height of the last boom, which peaked in 1980 with 74,064 babies born.
More than 40pc of the births in 2008 were to first-time mothers and a third were outside marriage.
According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures, 2008 saw the highest number of births registered since 1896 when 75,332 were recorded.
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