Ageing with Attitude: Organising an extra three decades of life

Ahead of Organ Donor Awareness Week, Margaret Jennings talks with Vera Dwyer, the longest-surviving single lung transplant victim in the world.

Three decades ago she was given five years to live, but Sligo-based Vera Dwyer has defied the odds and now holds the title of the longest-surviving single lung transplant recipient in the world.