Sperm donor has become father to 54 children and even launched his own app

Declan also has EIGHT children of his own with four different women. 

Declan Rooney is a one-man babymaking machine. in a few months time he’ll have fathered FIFTY-FOUR in an astonishing crusade to help women struggling to have children. This year alone Declan has notched up 31 births after setting up an online sperm donation website last year. Now he even has a smartphone app offering his services as a private donor and a free alternative to clinics.And with 15 more buns in the oven, he has no intention of stopping – despite causing uproar among family campaigners.

Today Declan, 43 – who has eight children of his own with four different women – wants to hit back at critics of unregulated sperm donation, insisting in his case that everything is above board.

Declan said: 

“I’m a nice guy. Why can’t people understand I am just doing this to help out?”
“Egg donors get treated like saints, sperm donors get treated like back alley, smutty boys,” “But I’m not doing a bad thing. I’m not ashamed. I have helped women create families.
 “I have seen five of the children in the past month because I have been donating for siblings,” he says.


“There wasn’t a eureka moment. I just felt as I was in the right place and time of my life.“It’s not really on an industrial scale. The first children were born last December and will be one this month.“All of the recipients keep in touch. All the babies are healthy and happy. I have a watchful eye. They send me feedback and tell me how the children are doing.”
“I’ve been inundated from the start. There were women who had been trying to have a baby for three or four years so it was very busy to begin with.
“I have helped people who have been to clinics where it’s failed, and it has worked first time with me. 
“It’s because it works – and I have a really high first time success rate, over 50 per cent. “I once had three successes in 24 hours, but I wouldn’t make a habit of it. You can’t control when a woman is going to ovulate.
“Timing is crucial. You ask a lot of questions, about pee sticks, body signs, temperature. That all goes back and forth. A lot of guys think becoming a sperm donor is really easy. It’s not. You have got to have good swimmers.”

Declan says he warns women to stay well away from private donors who try to charge for their sperm, which is illegal.He says he has been offered “payments in kind”, but always refuses.

“I’ve been contacted by people from abroad and offered free flights to the West Indies,”  “But I haven’t gone down that route. Long haul flights are not good for the swimmers.”
“One was a victim of abuse. She was desperate to be a mum but adamant she never wanted a sexual relationship,”  “Another was in her early 40s caring alone for elderly parents. A sperm donor was her only way of getting pregnant as she had no time to meet a man.
“One lady was born severely disfigured and believed she was unable to have sex.I could have gone to bed with quite a few of my successes, but it’s not about that. It’s about helping other people. When I have been successful and get a message from the pregnant woman, it makes me happy.”
He says he’s only had one recipient “go missing” on him.
“But her friends busted her,” he says. “It’s called sperm-jacking. She sent a picture of a negative pregnancy test, but her friends told me she was actually pregnant.”