The remarkable story of a CF patient, a lung transplant and the Government jet

Cork man Pio Fenton has shared the remarkable story of his brother's lung transplant which occurred 20 years ago today.

The remarkable story of a CF patient, a lung transplant and the Government jet

Cork man Pio Fenton has shared the remarkable story of his brother's lung transplant which occurred 20 years ago today.

Pio's brother Dermot was fighting a battle with cystic fibrosis (CF) and was in need of a lung transplant. But as Pio points out, he also needed a heart transplant, because "at that point it was best to get the matching heart that went with them."

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