Well-wishers have been sending their thoughts across the Atlantic for cystic fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley who had a long-awaited double lung transplant in New York on Wednesday night.

Well-wishers have been sending their thoughts across the Atlantic for cystic fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley who had a long-awaited double lung transplant in New York on Wednesday night.

Cystic fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley has called on the public to become organ donors in the run up to Christmas as she revealed she is currently on life support.

A pair of donor lungs were deemed unsuitable for Cystic Fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley for the fifth time.

Orla Tinsley, a campaigner for people with cystic fibrosis, thought her wait for a double lung transplant was over last weekend. But it was not to be.