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Transplant Team Gears Up To Go Down Under For 2023 World Transplant Games
Fourteen Irish transplant recipients will travel to Perth, Australia next month to represent Ireland at the World Transplant Games (15-21April). This follows a four-year hiatus for the biennial World Transplant Games, as the previous event planned for 2021 had to…
3 Daves Run Virtual Boston Marathon In Dublin
Three Tallaght Athletics Club runners, Dave O’Callaghan, Dave Fitzpatrick, and Dave Callaghan, set themselves an ambitious challenge when they ran this year’s Boston Marathon on home soil today (Sunday, 13th September). They undertook the challenge in support of several Club…
Virtual Run For A Life
The Irish Kidney Association today announced that it’s 12th annual Run For A Life will be held virtually. The event, which has been in Dublin’s Corkagh Park for the past few years and sees hundreds run to raise awareness of…
IKA Hosts International Team To Launch Transplant Games In Dublin 2020
Representatives of 22 nations converged in Dublin this weekend for the official launch of the Irish Kidney Association’s hosting of the 11th European Transplant & Dialysis Sports Championships, Dublin 2020 which will take place next year from 2-9 August (…
Transplant Teens Scaling the ski heights
Three Irish teenagers who have undergone organ transplants took part in a ski camp in Anzere, Switzerland, called TACKERS, made possible by the gifts of life they received from deceased organ donors. Kidney transplant recipients Gearoid Wrafter from Tullamore, Co.…
Irish transplant athletes rack up 21 medals at British Transplant Games
A jubilant group of twelve Irish transplant recipients, ranging in age from 9 to 70+, racked up a total of 21 medals including 9 Gold, 7 Silver and 5 Bronze at the 41st British Transplant Games which were held in Birmingham over…