# organ-donation - Tuesday 1 December, 2015
# Your Say
# Your Say
The change in the law aims to increase the number of donors by 25%.
# organ-donation - Thursday 2 July, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
I’m 38, a mother to two boys, and I have just been handed a death sentence.
# organ-donation - Saturday 11 April, 2015
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
The Murphy family appeared on The Late Late Show last night to promote organ donor awareness.
# organ-donation - Saturday 4 April, 2015
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Claire is now 21, but at 18 she found out she had serious medical problems with her kidneys.
# organ-donation - Monday 30 March, 2015
# News Wrap
# News Wrap
All of the news, none of the waiting.
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Her grandmother wants to raise awareness about organ donation.
# organ-donation - Monday 23 March, 2015
# Your Say
# Your Say
Or should people still have to explicitly say they are willing to donate their organs?
# organ-donation - Monday 8 December, 2014
# organ-donation - Tuesday 2 December, 2014
# Start The Conversation
From The42
# Start The Conversation
The Sunday Game pundit was on hand to launch Northern Ireland’s first Organ Donation Family Discussion Day.
# organ-donation - Monday 1 December, 2014
# Rest In Peace
# Rest In Peace
“She wanted to live with every fibre of her being.”
# organ-donation - Sunday 23 November, 2014
# Cystic Fibrosis
# Cystic Fibrosis
Helen Taylor, a Cystic Fibrosis sufferer, has been on the organ transplant waiting list for almost a year.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 12 August, 2014
# Breathing New Life
# Breathing New Life
Vera Dwyer was given days to live in 1988.
# organ-donation - Sunday 13 July, 2014
# Unintentional Hero
# Unintentional Hero
Recipients of organs thank their donors in music video.
# organ-donation - Thursday 29 May, 2014
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
However, the HSE said there is still a need for more organ donations.
# organ-donation - Monday 5 May, 2014
# Organ Donation
From The42
# Organ Donation
‘Alan’s Sports Extravaganza’ will take place on August 2nd in UL to honour the memory of the late Mayo man and increase awareness on organ donation.
# organ-donation - Saturday 5 April, 2014
# Gift Of Life
# Gift Of Life
Today is the final day of Organ Donor Awareness Week.
# organ-donation - Monday 31 March, 2014
# The Gift Of Life
# The Gift Of Life
Rory Doherty’s sister said she is “so incredibly proud” that her brother was one of the 86 people last year who gave a lifeline to someone in need.
# organ-donation - Saturday 29 March, 2014
# Your Say
# Your Say
Ireland currently has an opt-in system, do you think that should change?
# organ-donation - Saturday 22 March, 2014
# Education
# Education
The students will have their project implemented during organ donation week.
# organ-donation - Friday 21 February, 2014
# Liam Neeson
From The Daily Edge
# Liam Neeson
The actor spoke about his wife’s passing during an interview with CBS’s Anderson Cooper.
# organ-donation - Friday 3 January, 2014
# Your Say
# Your Say
Transplant operations were at a high last year, but hundreds are still on waiting lists.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 31 December, 2013
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
In total, 293 transplants were carried out in 2013, beating 2011’s record of 275.
# organ-donation - Wednesday 18 December, 2013
# Transplant
# Transplant
Former Gaelic Football star Joe Brolly says the €3 million pledged for a state of the art organ donation system will save lives.
# organ-donation - Thursday 21 November, 2013
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Shane O’Connell is currently in intensive care, and it is hoped he will get to be back in Kerry for Christmas Day.
# organ-donation - Saturday 16 November, 2013
# Transplants
# Transplants
The head of the Irish Kidney Assocation says James Reilly “hasn’t been good enough” on organ donation.
# organ-donation - Thursday 14 November, 2013
# Tune In
From The42
# Tune In
Next Monday night’s programme focuses on Brolly’s campaign to reform Irish organ donation practices after he donated a kidney.
# organ-donation - Thursday 24 October, 2013
# Taidhg Burke
# Taidhg Burke
Taidhg Burke, bass player with recent Hot Press cover stars The Calvanists, died following a car crash in Bantry last weekend.
# organ-donation - Saturday 12 October, 2013
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
The 27-year-old encouraged people to carry organ donar cards and to be aware of “the immense difference a transplant can make”.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 8 October, 2013
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Shane O’Connell is one of those 650 and has been living in the Mater Hospital for almost a year.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 1 October, 2013
# Oireachtas
# Oireachtas
An Oireachtas Committee said the change could “vastly increase” Ireland’s rate of organ donation.
# organ-donation - Saturday 7 September, 2013
# Organ Donor E-card
# Organ Donor E-card
The Deise players will all be displaying the Organ Donor E-card with one of their selectors himself a living kidney donor.
# organ-donation - Friday 23 August, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
The Seanad has made the correct decision not to annul a Statutory Instrument on organ donation and transplantation – but much improvement is still needed in the area, writes Senator Colm Burke.
# organ-donation - Wednesday 21 August, 2013
# Summer Holiday
# Summer Holiday
The Fianna Fáil health spokesperson spoke today from Portugal about why he missed the debate on organ donation legislation.
# organ-donation - Thursday 8 August, 2013
# Seanad Recall
# Seanad Recall
Fine Gael’s Colm Burke had criticised fellow senator, Fianna Fáil’s Mark Daly, for his action over organ donations legislation.
# organ-donation - Wednesday 24 July, 2013
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
Earlier this week Health Minister James Reilly began a consultation process to decide on whether organ donation should be made an ‘opt-out’ system.
# organ-donation - Monday 22 July, 2013
# Your Say
# Your Say
A new system is being consider where it will be assumed that everyone has given their consent to donate their organs after death.
# Donors
# Donors
The Department of Health is considering a new system where people are assumed to consent to donate their organs after death.
# organ-donation - Tuesday 18 June, 2013
# Organ Donation
# Organ Donation
A campaign in the US last year resulted in a 21-fold increase in registration.
# organ-donation - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
# Charity
From The42
# Charity
Several counties will sport the logo this summer.
# organ-donation - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
# Social Innovators
# Social Innovators
Students from Eureka Secondary School in Kells, Co Meath, took the prize with their ‘Bring Organ Donation Into Education’ project.
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