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Drumraney native and single lung transplant recipent, Mary McGarry, was in attendance at the recent recording of the Irish Kidney Association’s 37th annual service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving which will be broadcast on RTE One and RTE Radio One Extra this Sunday, October 30, at 11am.

Athlone native, Lavinia Connell, and her partner, Jason Hassett, both of whom are members of the Irish Defence Forces, are hoping that their collective years of army experience will prove beneficial as they prepare to ascend the world’s tallest freestanding mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro.

A Midlands couple exchanged wedding vows during the recent August bank holiday weekend, grateful for their shared good health, made possible by the groom donating a kidney to his bride two years ago.

Two transplant recipients from Athlone, together with family and friends, gathered at the scenic Burgess Park in Athlone, on the banks of the River Shannon, for a photocall to highlight the Irish Kidney Association’s third virtual Run for a Life (www.ika.ie/runforalife), a family fun run which will culminate on Saturday, May 28.

Organ donor families and grateful transplant recipients from around the country are supporting the Organ Donor Awareness Week 2022 campaign which will take place from April 23 to 30 and is organised by the Irish Kidney Association in association with the HSE’s Organ Donation Transplant Ireland.

In a first for Ireland, a patient at St James’s Hospital in Dublin has received a cell therapy treatment for lymphoma. This is a significant development for blood cancer patients and is the first time Chimeric Antigen Receptor –T cell (CAR-T) therapy is being delivered in Ireland.

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The Irish Kidney Association (IKA) is looking forward to celebrating the annual Organ Donor Awareness Week 2021 with many public sites around the country being lit up in green from Saturday, March 27 until Saturday, April 3.