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# Gift of Life

Organ Donation: The donors and the people they save

Today is the final day of Organ Donor Awareness Week.

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Apr 5th 2014, 10:45 AM

# Gift of Life

"Bestowed a bright shining light": Appleby jewellers' son saved by donor

Gerry and Helen’s son Simon was called to Beaumont Hospital to undergo a kidney transplant operation last week.

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Apr 4th 2014, 5:20 PM

# Awareness

Record number of organ transplants in Ireland last year

That’s despite the number of deceased donors being the same as 10 years ago.

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Mar 26th 2014, 2:04 PM

# hirsutes you sir

New York hipsters have created a beard transplant boom

Yes, we did say beard transplant.

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Feb 27th 2014, 7:30 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Do you have an organ donor card?

Transplant operations were at a high last year, but hundreds are still on waiting lists.

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Jan 3rd 2014, 8:45 AM

# Transplant

Opt for Life campaign welcome organ donation reforms

Former Gaelic Football star Joe Brolly says the €3 million pledged for a state of the art organ donation system will save lives.

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Dec 18th 2013, 5:11 PM

# Organ Donation

Family's joy as heart transplant dad could be home for Christmas

Shane O’Connell is currently in intensive care, and it is hoped he will get to be back in Kerry for Christmas Day.

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Nov 21st 2013, 7:45 AM

# Investigation

Transplant Association: ‘We need to ensure ambulance breakdown doesn’t happen again’

The Irish Heart and Transplant Association has said that the HSE needs to investigate fully the incident where an ambulance ran out of fuel while carrying transplant patient.

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Sep 21st 2013, 7:40 PM

# True Love

Man walks streets with sign to find wife a kidney

And he succeeds!

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Sep 6th 2013, 12:27 PM

# dail recall

Attorney General says Dáil recall to debate transplant legislation is 'redundant'

Senator Mark Daly said that “this is the first time in the history of the State the government has published advice from the Attorney General”.

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Aug 13th 2013, 5:11 PM

# Seanad

Seanad to be recalled to debate transplant legislation

The Minister for Health James Reilly will be recalled from his holidays to face questions from the Seanad on transplant legislation after a Fianna Fáil senator acquired the necessary signatures to a petition calling for the Seanad to reconvene.

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Aug 6th 2013, 3:44 PM

# South Africa

Irish team returns from World Transplant Games with 34 medals

In total, the team members won an impressive 12 gold medals, 10 silver and 12 bronze.

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Aug 5th 2013, 4:07 PM

# Transplant

Pride and anticipation as transplant athletes head to World Transplant Games

There are 24 Irish athletes taking part in the games this year, which will kick off in Durban, South Africa, on July 28.

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Jul 26th 2013, 6:45 AM

# Donors

James Reilly asks the public if organ donation should be 'opt-out'

The Department of Health is considering a new system where people are assumed to consent to donate their organs after death.

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Jul 22nd 2013, 8:24 AM

# Kidney transplant

10 years of life-changing transplants marked by Temple Street

The hospital is marking 10 years of performing kidney transplants, and said that last year was the busiest year ever for the transplants.

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Jun 29th 2013, 12:37 PM

# Organ Donation

Facebook campaigns have the power to 'dramatically boost' organ donation

A campaign in the US last year resulted in a 21-fold increase in registration.

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Jun 18th 2013, 6:45 AM

# amputation

First person to have two-leg transplant has both limbs amputated again

Doctors said that the patient contracted an unrelated illness that forced him to stop taking anti-rejection drugs.

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Jun 11th 2013, 4:03 PM

# Tearjerker

PICTURES: Daughter meets the woman who received her mum's face

Months after the procedure, Carmen Tarleton revealed the results of her face transplant.

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May 1st 2013, 8:51 PM

# Transplant

In lab 'bio-kidney' successfully transplanted into rat

The new kidney started filtering blood and producing urine through the ureter as soon as the bloody supply was restored.

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Apr 15th 2013, 10:39 AM

# you told us

Top readers' comments of the week

Here’s our roundup of the best, the most popular and the most commented-on pieces from the past week. Did you make it in?

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Mar 30th 2013, 11:00 AM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.

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Nov 27th 2012, 8:40 AM

# RIP

Pioneering transplant doctor Joseph Murray dies in Boston

The Nobel Prize winner was 93.

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Nov 27th 2012, 7:40 AM

# Walking again

Video: This paralysed sausage dog 'nose' how to walk again

Jasper couldn’t use his back legs but after an injection of cells taken from his nose he showed considerable improvement.

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Nov 20th 2012, 9:04 AM

# Transplant

Swedish women in world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants

Uterine transplants are a relatively novel medical procedure, with the first successful one conducted in Turkey in 2011.

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Sep 18th 2012, 2:09 PM

# 11

Lomu 'trying to live normal life' awaiting second transplant

The New Zealand legend was hospitalised during last year’s Rugby World Cup, eight years on from his first kidney transplant.

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Aug 22nd 2012, 5:58 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Do you support embryonic stem cell research?

We’d like to know: do you support embryonic stem cell research?

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Jun 14th 2012, 11:12 AM

# Social Network

Facebook asks members to add organ donor status to timeline

The social network says “simply telling people that you’re an organ donor” can help increase the number of people who sign up to donate.

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May 1st 2012, 3:00 PM

# heartwarming

Meadhbh McGivern: "One year on, life is absolutely brilliant"

The Leitrim girl who had a liver transplant operation after a transportation failure last year is fighting fit after finally getting her surgery.

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Apr 25th 2012, 6:45 AM

# Science

VIDEO: Full face transplant man, one year on

Dallas Wiens, who lost all his facial features in an accident, says he can now feel his daughter kiss him on the cheek.

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Apr 4th 2012, 12:36 PM

# Medical Marvel

US man successfully undergoes world's most extensive face transplant

Richard Lee Norris can feel his face and is already shaving, despite having his face ruined in a gun accident 15 years ago.

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Mar 28th 2012, 6:47 PM

# Transplant

Former US vice president Dick Cheney receives heart transplant

The former vice president of the United States has had a long history of heart problems and had been on the transplant list for 20 months.

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Mar 25th 2012, 12:40 PM

# Limb transplant

Turkey: quadruple limb transplant fails

A Turkish patient has had four transplanted limbs removed – after undergoing 20 hours of surgery – because his body rejected them.

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Feb 27th 2012, 2:00 PM

# Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Sunday

Your evening round-up of the day’s main news…

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Feb 5th 2012, 8:00 PM

Voices

Column: The day I received a kidney transplant

After two and a half years on dialysis, Regina Hennelly got the call to say a donor had been found. Here she describes what it felt like.

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Feb 5th 2012, 6:00 PM

# In Numbers

Prime numbers: the week in stats

Earthquakes! Earnings! Petitions! Racehorses! Healthy cities?! Our weekly numerical guide to the events of the last seven days.

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Jan 28th 2012, 7:15 PM

# whoops

Medics drop heart being rushed for transplant

After exiting a helicopter carrying the heart for transplant, a medic stumbled and the plastic-wrapped heart tumbled out of a cooler onto the street.

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Jan 12th 2012, 9:34 AM

Voices

Column: My 'bucket list' for the New Year

Years of serious childhood illness and two organ transplants stifled Trevor O’Sullivan’s personal wishlist for years. He’s still ill – but now he wants to really go for it, Rocky-style.

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Jan 1st 2012, 6:00 PM