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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

Local News

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

Sport

Two Limerick men to represent the county at the World Transplant Games

TWO TRANSPLANT recipients from Limerick are set to represent Ireland at the World Transplant Games next month. The games take place in Perth, Australia from April 15 to April 21. The legendary John 'The Bullet' Loftus and Michael ...

14 Mar 2023 at 17:30

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 ...

23 Aug 2023 at 13:13

Local News

Limerick Student wins Gold for Ireland in British Transplant Games

LIMERICK student Tara Madigan has won three gold medals at the British Transplant Games. Madigan won the Long Jump, the 5km Road Race and also the 200m in the Under 18 age-group. Tara is a student at Castletroy College ...

01 Aug 2023 at 18:00

Sport

One Limerick man’s dream to continue his love for sports after serious illness

LIAM PATTERSON from Raheen, never believed he would see the day he would be well enough to participate in sports again after a horrid few years of serious illness. After a horrible 2022, Liam, who is now living in ...

14 Dec 2023 at 14:30

Community

Limerick to be represented at World Transplant Games

TWO LIMERICK athletes are members of the largest-ever Irish Transplant Team travelling to the World Transplant Games next month. Emma O’Sullivan and Trevor Lynch will join 37 other team members in the 2019 games ...

15 Jul 2019 at 17:00

Community

Limerick's Tara and Trevor win over a quarter of Ireland’s medals at Transplant Games

THE phrase “it's not the winning but the taking part that counts” could have been written for the British Transplant Games. Ten Irish athletes - seven adults and three children – won 10 gold, 9 silver and 3 ...

03 Aug 2019 at 10:00

Local News

Great grand daughter of Limerick hurling legend Mick Mackey breaks world record

ON A MEMORABLE weekend for Irish sport there was more success at the 41st British Transplant Games in Birmingham. A jubilant group of 12 Irish transplant recipients came home with 21 medals. These included ...

12 Aug 2018 at 17:00

Community

Limerick girl wins medals at Transplant Games and meets donor's family

TARA Madigan won three gold medals at the British Transplant Games and she was cheered on by two families – her own and her donor’s. The 10-year-old from Castleconnell received a life saving deceased ...

15 Aug 2017 at 11:00

Local News

Limerick girl wins two gold medals at British Transplant Games

IT’S NOT only athletes in Rio de Janeiro that are wearing Irish singlets with pride as a county Limerick girl has brought home two gold medals from the British Transplant Games in Liverpool. Tara ...

20 Aug 2016 at 13:00

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