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Families of children waiting for heart transplant appeal for donors

The families of five children waiting for a heart transplant have joined together to ask people to consider becoming organ donors. Since the pandemic the number of available organs has dropped, leading to extremely poorly children waiting even ...

21 Jul 2022 at 16:19

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Scientists convert lungs to universal blood type in step towards neutral organ transplants

Researchers have converted lungs donated for transplants to a universal blood type in a step towards creating neutral organs that could expand the options for patients awaiting a transplant. The achievement could mean blood-matching no longer ...

17 Feb 2022 at 13:46

Northern Ireland

Minister makes appeal for new donors for human milk bank

More donors are needed for Northern Ireland’s only human milk bank – which helps premature and seriously ill babies, the health minister has said. Robin Swann visited the facility at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, which ...

22 Aug 2022 at 15:30

National News

'A massive success' - Woman receives UK's first womb transplant thanks to sister's donation

A woman has been given a womb by her older sister in the UK’s first womb transplant. The 34-year-old married woman received the organ – also called the uterus – during an operation lasting nine hours and 20 minutes at the Churchill ...

23 Aug 2023 at 13:13

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Kilkenny woman living life to the full after ill-health

The expression 'making the most of life' is one that most people wish to follow but so many fail to fulfill in practice. However, for one Kilkenny woman, this positive ideology has become a hallmark of her life today, with every ...

07 Dec 2023 at 16:56

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Calls for more resources for Kilkenny dialysis patients

For many, a trip to the Kilkenny Dialysis Centre on Lower New Street is part of an every day week. People from across the city and county are joined by fellow patients from various parts of the South-East for one of the most ...

09 Dec 2023 at 15:56

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Ballyragget's Emma to take part in European Transplant Games in Italy

Ballyragget native Emma O'Sullivan will represent Ireland in the European Transplant Games in Italy next month. Emma lives in Glin, Limerick with her husband John and is the daughter of John and Rose Walsh. The 10th ...

15 May 2018 at 15:50

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Kilkenny nephew gives uncle gift of life with a new kidney

A Kilkenny man in his 30s has been given the gift of life by his loving nephew. Davy Hogan had no hestitation in making the decision to provide his chronically ill uncle with one of his kidneys. His uncle Richie ...

21 Jul 2017 at 01:08

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Ray D'arcy steps out with beaming Elizabeth for IKA's Run for a Life

03 May 2017 at 15:50

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