'It’s the biggest transplant you can get': Organ donors saved young mum's life

To mark Organ Donation Week, quadruple transplant recipient Sinead Lowndes talks about how she beat the odds and,  with the help of donors, is now watching her daughter grow up

Sinead Lowndes

NO gift will ever be greater than life for 31-year-old Dubliner Sinead Lowndes, one of two people in Ireland to receive a multi-disciplinary organ transplant. Two years after her quadruple transplant surgery, the young mum is telling her story to help raise awareness.

“In late 2018, I was diagnosed with a rare liver condition, out of nowhere. My stomach had swelled and I went to the doctor, thinking I had wind. About a week later, they told me I had Budd-Chiari and that I’d need to get a liver transplant,” says Sinead, who was 29 at the time.