# organ-donation - Wednesday 20 July, 2022
# Human Tissue Bill
# Human Tissue Bill
A Bill was due to be signed off before the summer break, but has been pushed to the autumn.
# organ-donation - Saturday 30 April, 2022
# Lifesaver
# Lifesaver
The Irish Kidney Association is encouraging people to have conversations with family if they want to be a donor.
# organ-donation - Wednesday 29 December, 2021
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Ninety-nine donors were involved in the process – 64 people who had died and 35 living donors.
# organ-donation - Thursday 31 December, 2020
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Ninety donors were involved in the process – 62 people who had died and 28 living donors.
# organ-donation - Monday 21 December, 2020
# Gift Of Life
# Gift Of Life
Transplants through deceased donors are down 25% on last year.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 31 December, 2019
# Matilda
# Matilda
Rebecca Maher’s daughter died at just eight months old, but was able to give a new life to someone waiting on a kidney transplant.
# organ-donation - Monday 30 December, 2019
# HSE
# HSE
Simon Harris said he hopes more people will donate organs through he Human Tissue Bill.
# organ-donation - Wednesday 16 October, 2019
# Differing Views
# Differing Views
The plans will be debated at the Oireachtas Health Committee today.
# organ-donation - Sunday 11 August, 2019
# Donor Card
# Donor Card
Emma O’Sullivan has gone through two organ transplants due to an illness she has experienced since birth.
# organ-donation - Thursday 2 May, 2019
# Organ Donor Card
# Organ Donor Card
The Bill also provides for non-directed altruistic kidney donation.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
# Gift Of Life
# Gift Of Life
The launched was attended by Ambassador Ray D’Arcy and Minister for Health Simon Harris.
# organ-donation - Sunday 6 January, 2019
# Cystic Fibrosis
# Cystic Fibrosis
Luke Doherty was added to the transplant waiting list when one of his lungs collapsed.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 20 November, 2018
# Vera Dwyer
# Vera Dwyer
Vera Dwyer (77) had her transplant operation in 1988 in the UK after being diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
# organ-donation - Saturday 3 November, 2018
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Currently, donors can get accomodation, travel and wages reimbursed up to €16,000.
# organ-donation - Thursday 20 September, 2018
# Warrior
# Warrior
On a typical day, the Irish Kidney Association would receive 20 to 50 requests for organ donor cards.
# organ-donation - Saturday 31 March, 2018
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
‘Ordinary people get to do extraordinary things.’
# organ-donation - Saturday 13 January, 2018
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
The former Dublin hurler is also receiving treatment for skin cancer.
# organ-donation - Sunday 7 January, 2018
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
An IKA spokesperson said that this was six to seven times more than the usual amount for this period.
# organ-donation - Friday 29 December, 2017
# Donors
# Donors
This included 51 kidneys from living donors.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 26 December, 2017
# Orla Tinsley
# Orla Tinsley
The journalist and Cystic Fibrosis activist has long campaigned for more awareness about the condition.
# organ-donation - Saturday 4 November, 2017
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
In September, he was diagnosed IPF (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) a rare and incurable lung condition.
# organ-donation - Monday 28 August, 2017
# Transplants
# Transplants
Health Minister Simon Harris today launched a six-week public consultation on an opt-out organ donation scheme.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 11 July, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
Health Minister Simon Harris plans to introduce an opt out system in Ireland in the near future.
# organ-donation - Sunday 11 June, 2017
# Gift Of Life
# Gift Of Life
“A death has occurred, but a life is also saved and enhanced.”
# organ-donation - Tuesday 9 May, 2017
# Gift Of Life
# Gift Of Life
Nevaeh Gale-Spollen was just weeks away from her 10th brithday when she died from a brain haemorrhage.
# organ-donation - Monday 8 May, 2017
# Transplants
# Transplants
“Donating your organs is the most selfless act that anybody can actually do.”
# organ-donation - Saturday 8 April, 2017
# Sam
# Sam
Sam Kinahan was born with a severe bladder defect, leaving him in end-stage renal failure.
# organ-donation - Friday 7 April, 2017
# Organ Donor Week
# Organ Donor Week
Graham Bright had just begun a new job in when he ended up in St Vincent’s Hospital with end-stage kidney failure.
# organ-donation - Thursday 6 April, 2017
# Donor Card
# Donor Card
Eleven members of the family have been diagnosed with the same unusual hereditary kidney condition called Tubulo Nephritis.
# organ-donation - Monday 3 April, 2017
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Shauna Morrissey has cystic fibrosis and is campaigning for an opt-out organ donation system.
# organ-donation - Sunday 2 April, 2017
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Helen Taylor died while waiting for a double lung transplant in 2014.
# organ-donation - Saturday 1 April, 2017
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Dr Noel Howard said it was “an easy decision” to make.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 21 February, 2017
# Gavin Coyne
# Gavin Coyne
Gavin Coyne passed away yesterday while awaiting surgery in Freeman Hospital Newcastle.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 14 February, 2017
# Valentine's Day
# Valentine's Day
Of all the things that companies are trying to flog this Valentine’s Day, the best gift is your heart. Your actual pound-of-flesh beating heart.
# organ-donation - Wednesday 21 December, 2016
# Myles
# Myles
The father of Myles Jordan said that the boy is doing incredibly well after receiving a life-saving kidney transplant.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 30 August, 2016
# Drug Tragedy
# Drug Tragedy
Nicole Ryan’s brother Alex went into cardiac arrest after taking an extremely potent synthetic drug.
# organ-donation - Thursday 5 May, 2016
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
A report released today shows the increase in Ireland in organ donations.
# organ-donation - Sunday 3 April, 2016
# Organ Donor
# Organ Donor
Myles was born with a rare disorder, requiring the eventual removal of both of his kidneys.
# organ-donation - Saturday 2 April, 2016
# Lifesaving
# Lifesaving
Laura Dolan had been suffering from a series of liver ailments for six years prior to her transplant in September 2015.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 26 January, 2016
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Trevor Sullivan’s life was saved after he received a donor heart.
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