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A Kilkenny man is recovering in hospital in Dublin just one week after receiving a life-altering kidney transplant - just in time for Organ Donor Awareness Week.

FOR many people, avoiding a telephone call is a side-effect of a busy life, for many others, a telephone call is all that they are waiting for, because literally their lives depend on it. As you read this, there are 600 people in Ireland who are awaiting a transplant, and awaiting a telephone call to tell them that it could happen within hours.

When Eoin Madden woke up last Christmas morning he realised he had been given the best present ever.

Organ Donor Awareness Week, organised by the Irish Kidney Association and supported by the Irish Donor Network, will take place from this Saturday, March 28, until April 4.