Doctor who received kidney from fellow GP: ‘I didn’t realise how unwell I was but I feel so much better now’

Next week is the Irish Kidney Association's Organ Donor Awareness Week.

A Galway doctor went above and beyond the call of duty to help his patient – a fellow doctor, writes Stephen Barry.

Dr. Noel Howard (39) and Dr. Ruth Smith (46), originally from Douglas, Cork, have been working together in Salthill, Galway for close to a decade, while their personal lives have come to overlap with each having three young children.