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Father gets to spend Christmas Day with children thanks to kidney transplant
PRESS RELEASE 22 December 2025 Father gets to spend Christmas Day with children thanks to kidney transplant This Christmas will be a profoundly different one for a young family in Cork, as a 35-year-old father of two young children, is…
Organ Donation and Transplantation Preliminary Figures 2024
Service of Remembrance & Thanksgiving 2023
MULLINGAR HOSTS NATIONAL EVENT HONOURING ORGAN DONORS (Photos by Conor McCabe tel. 085 7057255 – NO REPRO FEE) More than 1,000 people from all over Ireland converged in the Midlands town of Mullingar for the Irish Kidney Association 38th Annual Service…
IKA Statement On The Importance Of Securing The Future Of An Annual Potential Donor Audit
The National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) published its findings this week in a feasibility study, commissioned by Organ Donation Transplant Ireland (ODTI), to appraise the need for a national clinical audit of organ donation practices. Click here to view…
NOCA Potential Donor Audit Development Project Report Launch
About the Potential Donor Audit Development Project Arising from a recommendation from the Potential Donor Audit Feasibility Study Report (National Office of Clinical Audit, 2022), Organ Donation Transplant Ireland commissioned the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) to develop a…
4-Year-Old Enjoys Family Break Away With Her Kidney Donor Father On Father’s Day.
Four-year-old girl Ally Whitston is enjoying a new lease of life thanks to her father David (35) who came to her rescue in March this year by donating a kidney to her. Parents Michelle and David, are now looking forward…
EKPF & EKHA Open Letter on Support For Ukrainian Kidney Patients
The Irish Kidney Association supports a call by the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and the European Kidney Patients’ Federation (EKPF) for protection of Chronic Kidney Disease patients in the wake of the escalating conflict in Ukraine. You can read…
STATEMENT ON NPHET’S RECOMMENDATION FOR REMOVAL OF MASK WEARING MANDATE
The Irish Kidney Association (IKA) refers to yesterday’s recommendation by NPHET to the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly to remove a mask wearing mandate from most settings/ with just a few exceptions. The Irish Kidney Association is concerned that there…
GALWAY COUPLE KICK OFF NEW YEAR IN CROSS BORDER KIDNEY TRANSPLANT SWAP
A Galway couple is celebrating a successful cross border four-way kidney transplant swap which took place on 4th January 2022. Eoin Madden from Kiltullagh in County Galway is now enjoying a newly transplanted kidney which he received from a stranger…
IKA APPRAISAL OF END OF YEAR FIGURES FOR ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION
PRESS RELEASE 29th December 2021 IKA APPRAISAL OF PRELIMINARY END OF YEAR FIGURES FOR ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION The Irish Kidney Association (IKA) acknowledges the kindness of the 64 deceased donors, and their families, who, in…
Return to Work Letter to Employers
The Irish Kidney Association, together with The Irish Heart and Lung Transplant Association, (IHLTA) and Multiple Sclerosis Ireland, have written a letter for medically vulnerable employees to give to their employers as workplaces and offices return post-Covid. Click here to…