Ireland

Renal failure leads to extra complications in people with disabilities. Fiona MacDonald's 21st birthday should have been a celebration milestone, but it turns out to be the day she was …

A classroom resource on organ donation created by students from Eureka Secondary School, Kells, Ireland as part of their award …

While organ donations can look like a happy ending for patients after years of dialysis and waiting lists, regaining their old lives could be another story. This month, the first …

Ireland's performance is “significantly lower” in the proportion of deceased organ donation among the age group over 60, a meeting of the National Organ Donation and Transplantation Advisory Group (NODTAG) …

When Mark Moore had to start dialysis in his early 30s due to polycystic kidney disease, he felt he lost the battle in an inheritance condition diagnosed as a child. …

A US man with terminal heart disease has had a genetically modified pig heart implanted during his first similar surgery, and the patient is on track three days later, his …

GREG FOLEY SAYS he wouldn’t have made his 40th birthday if he hadn’t had a double lung transplant in 2002.

Northern Ireland's transplant football team is set to make history as they prepare to compete at the first transplant football World Cup held in Italy next week. The seven tournaments, …

When she first met her, she hugged her twin sisters, hugged her and held her hand. “I can, I'll wave,” Colin Hutton said when he met Deborah Gosling. Julie Wild's …

Five have a better chance as late champion boxer John Cooney donated some of his organs. Father Tadhg Quinn said it was a measure of Cooney and his family. The …