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Tipperary council offices lit up in green to highlight Organ Donor Awareness Week

Tipperary County Council’s offices in Clonmel, Tipperary and Carrick-on-Suir are lit up in green from dusk to dawn throughout this week as part of Organ Donor Awareness Week. They are among more than 60 public sites around the country being lit up ...

01 Apr 2021 at 17:17

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Thurles student helps launch Organ Donor Awareness week

A liver transplant recipient from Holycross features in the online launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week 2021 organised by the Irish Kidney Association. Twenty-one year old Tomas Caffrey is a third year student in Hotel & Leisure Management at ...

27 Mar 2021 at 22:00

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Tipperary Rose of Tralee remembers her late Mayo grandfather who lost his battle with kidney failure

Clonmel's newly crowned Tipperary Rose of Tralee is aiming to increase organ donor awareness while honouring the memory of her late grandfather from Mayo who lost his battle with kidney failure six years ago. Clonmel pharmacist Laura Durkan ...

05 Apr 2018 at 13:27

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Tipperary father hopes to receive a life-changing kidney transplant

A Tipperary father of three will lead a motorcade and exhibition at The Hub at Cillin Hill, Kilkenny, in aid of the Irish Kidney Association this weekend. Owen Hanrahan’s world was turned upside down in 2016 when he suffered kidney failure....

06 Apr 2018 at 14:00

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Tipperary people attend launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week 2018

Tipperary people joined a large gathering involved in organ donation and transplantation at the official launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week 2018 in Dublin on Tuesday. The annual life-saving awareness campaign is organised by the Irish ...

30 Mar 2018 at 17:04

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RTÉ's Claire Byrne is the new ambassador for Irish Kidney Association's Organ Donor Awareness Week campaign

The Irish Kidney Association, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, is delighted to announce that Claire Byrne has taken up the voluntary role of ambassador for the 2018 Organ Donor Awareness Week campaign, which runs from ...

09 Mar 2018 at 12:57

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'Hayley was my rock when I had given up hope'

A Tipperary strongman has a “new lease on life” following a kidney transplant last November. Eoin Shanahan from Childers Park in Thurles underwent a pre-emptive kidney transplant, six years after doctors gave him the heartbreaking ...

27 Mar 2017 at 17:18

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Tipperary liver transplant student featured at national launch of organ donor awareness campaign

21-year-old liver transplant recipient, student Tomás Caffrey from Holycross, Tipperary featured in this week’s video online webinar launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week, which is organised by the Irish Kidney Association. Tomás ...

24 Mar 2021 at 08:30

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'Hayley was my rock when I had given up hope'

A Tipperary strongman has a "new lease on life" following a kidney transplant last November. Eoin Shanahan from Childers Park in Thurles underwent a pre-emptive kidney transplant six years after doctors gave him the ...

24 Mar 2017 at 13:35

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'Not a day goes by I don't think about my donor family': says Thurles transplant patient Danielle Walsh

A Thurles woman who is waiting for a life saving kidney transplant for over two and a half years has said she refuses to give up hope and believes a match will one day be found. Forty one year old Danielle Walsh ...

28 Mar 2019 at 12:49

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Tipperary woman awaiting second kidney transplant urges public to consider carrying organ donor card

A Tipperary Town woman waiting for her second kidney transplant has appealed to the public to help transform the lives of people like her by signing up to carry organ donor cards. Alison McCarthy-Fogarty from ...

28 Apr 2022 at 14:02

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Double transplant would greatly enhance life of Tipperary woman Triona Lyons

A Clonmel woman says that the combined kidney and pancreas transplant she is waiting on would make a “huge difference” to her quality of life. 40 year-old Triona Lyons has been a dialysis patient for the ...

27 Mar 2019 at 13:37

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