Code Red For The O'Learys! Meet Our Adorable Triplets

The flame-haired cuties have really created a stir.

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As doting dad Fionn O’Leary has already discovered, it’s an advantage to have large hands and an ample arm span when you’re juggling three tiny newborns.

“I tuck one under an elbow, squeeze her sister in beside and I wrangle a bottle to the third with the other hand,” laughs the father-of-five.

In July this year, Fionn and his wife Sarah, both 26, became the proud parents of gorgeous red-haired fraternal triplets Toby, Sadie and Macy. The Canterbury couple already had two older sons, Olly, five, and 18-month-old Archy.

“We very quickly went from, ‘Hey, let’s have a third baby,’ to the parents of five redheads aged five and under,” says Fionn, the manager of Christchurch ice rink Alpine Ice. “My father has already offered to pay for the vasectomy!”

But jokes aside, the O’Learys are smitten with their new additions and already the flame-haired bubs have become international stars. Local photographer Cassandra English took pictures of the gorgeous triplets at 31 days old and her images became an overnight sensation on Facebook with 8.5 million hits.

“We think they’re pretty gorgeous, but obviously there’s a fascination with three tiny triplets,” says Sarah. “Maybe it’s the red hair.”