Oisín McShane

So our Úna's gone and had her first baby boy. A baby brother for Caoimhe, her first-born. And she's calling him Oisín. A fine name. A poet-warrior (don't you love the old Irish, the way you didn't have to specialise at the expense of your other talents - you could write sensitive verse and kill your enemies?). Only this Oisín isn't the son of Fionn Mac Cumhail, but Kevin, her husand.

I've still to meet young Oisín, so of course I've googled him prior to the meeting. And fabulous! Oisín McShane is not one of those common-type names where you've 1000s of pages to trawl through before you find the one you're looking for! Indeed there were no exact google results for young Oisín McShane at all!

Now, there aren't a hundred million results for Úna Gallen on google (ok...one if you search for "una gallen") and Úna McShane isn't wildly popular (54 results!) but by choosing Oisín as her son's name, my sister has got the .com etc etc etc, and the chance to fill up EMPTY google search results with her son.

Now that's the future spread before you like golden cloaks :)

I have yet to ask her, but I presume she wasn't like this American couple, who googled all the different permutations of their child's name, until they found the perfect mix of not very weird and highly google rated...