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Evening Standard
National
David Young

Premature baby boy who beat the odds set for Christmas dinner at home

14-month-old Iarla Ace at his familys’ home in Castlecaulfield near Dungannon, Co Tyrone (Liam McBurney/PA) -

An odds-defying baby boy who weighed only 1lb 10oz at birth is set for his first taste of Christmas dinner after having a feeding tube removed just ahead of the festive season.

Doctors feared Iarla Ace would not survive long when he was born prematurely at 25 weeks in the Royal Maternity Hospital in Belfast last October.

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