Ireland's first liver and double lung transplant recipient says the possibilities are endless now.

The mum of a toddler who suffers a rare heart condition is appealing for more awareness of "invisible" conditions and a push to highlight the importance of children's organ donations.

The focus must be on improving rates of family consent when providing an opt-out system of organ donation, the Irish Kidney Association has urged.

At just 25 years old, David Beirne's life was turned upside-down when he was diagnosed with kidney failure.

The low numbers of organ donation from deceased children is impacting on paediatric transplantation programmes, research shows.

That was achieved after the families of 80 people who died donated the organs of their loved ones this year.

Bernard Óg's family explain how Temple Street hospital was their home away from home for the last few years.

A record number of organ transplants were carried out in Ireland last year, according to the Irish Kidney Association.

Life-saving organ donations will increase under proposed human tissue legislation which will see people’s body parts automatically gifted for transplants.

There has been another step forward in the development of Organ Donation services here.

Hopes have been raised that scientists will be able to store donor organs for months or even years.

Not everybody in life gets to become a hero but when the chance presented itself to the comedian and podcast star, Jarlath Regan, he grabbed it with gusto.

Scientists have developed a human-pig hybrid so they can grow human hearts, livers, and kidneys for transplants.

A quadruple amputee who is seeking a double hand transplant has decided to bare all in a bid to highlight organ and limb donation, writes Ella Pickover

An 11-year-old boy who was on the transplant waiting list almost his whole life has finally received a kidney from a stranger who saw his plight on social media.

Eight out of 10 people want to donate their organs but only half have discussed the issue with their family, it has emerged.

A daughter is swimming the channel after her aunt donated a kidney to her father, writes Arlene Harris

It is a long way to Tipperary when your ailing father needs a kidney transplant so Darren Martin decided against going to Austria to pursue a master’s degree in German so he could perform the ultimate altruistic deed.

The family of a man who gave life to five terminally ill people has appealed for others to become organ donors in the event of their death.

From the moment she was born, Courtney Kealy had to have a kidney transplant. She was born with kidney dysplasia, a condition most affected babies do not survive.

Ben was only six when he died last October, and donated his organs. Sarah was a fit-24-year-old when she went into heart failure and on the transplant list. She and Ben’s family share their stories.

Broadcaster Mary Kennedy has pleaded with the public to sign up as organ donors after witnessing at first hand the heartbreak and miraculous recoveries involved.

Modern medicine has found many ways to turn what might once have been a tragedy into something if not quite a victory then something uplifting, something defying and utterly of the human spirit.