Ronan

American

[roh-nahn] / ˈroʊ nɑn /

noun

Irish Legend.

a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.

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Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai, Aimee Lou Wood and Mia McKenna-Bruce have all been announced to play the wives and partners of the four.

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However, Caitlin Gilbertson-Ernest, from West Yorkshire, says the system is unfair, as her funding would have started if her son Ronan had been born just 18 days earlier.

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Ronan was born in mid-April 2025, but will not qualify for government-paid childcare until April this year.

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"If Ronan had been born 18 days earlier we would have received the funded hours from January and that would have dramatically changed the costs we are having to pay now."

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"France have threats all over the park. How they differ from any other team in the Six Nations would be the fact that if they lose five of their top players, it doesn't matter," La Rochelle head coach Ronan O'Gara told BBC Sport.

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