The Irish Kidney Association is hosting the event in Dublin in August of next year.

Concerns have been raised over the availability of services and appropriate infrastructure if new laws on organ donation are passed.

The 34th annual service of remembrance and thanksgiving for organ donors is to take place later today in Dublin.

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.

Despite his healthy lifestyle, Ben Gaughran suffered a kidney failure. An organ donor changed everything — and he gives thanks daily, says Margaret Jennings

“I get up at 7.30am every morning and work down on the family farm and I keep going until ten at night, no problem.”

Families across the country are being urged to have a conversation about organ donation during Organ Donor Week.

Double lung transplant warrior Orla Tinsley who is back in hospital after a health setback has thanked the public for their get well wishes and support.

A man who ran 1,000km from the north to the south of Ireland in 15 days says he hopes his feat will inspire others to register as organ donors.

A fourth-generation firefighter gave his older brother one of his kidneys after a virus left his older sibling with irreversible kidney damage.

Dinnertime in the Kelly household was always an epic affair, but never more so than when all 19 siblings gathered to celebrate their mother Nora’s 90th birthday.

Ahead of the Irish Kidney Association’s Organ Donor Awareness Week, which takes place from today until April 7, Reah and Aaron Higgins from Caher, Co Clare, talk to Carol Byrne about their recent transplant journey.

There are still 500 people waiting for replacement organs, despite 2017 being a record year of transplants for Irish patients, when 327 organs were transplanted last year into 321 patients.

The 27 members of Transplant Team Ireland were welcomed home by a large gathering of family, friends and supporters at Dublin Airport today showing off their haul of 32 medals from the 21st World Transplant Games in Malaga.

1 Race to the Finish

Two doctors who share a busy medical practice in Salthill, Co Galway, share a kidney transplant story.

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

Six-year-old Lexi Murphy hardly ever complains when she gets her nightly injections.

A mother whose six-year-old daughter is awaiting a double transplant says one of the most difficult aspects is that, to help Lexi, another family must make the decision to donate in a time of grief.

A number of Irish postgraduate students who are doing a Masters in Projects Management have collaborated with the Irish Kidney Association.

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

The gift of a new kidney gave Patricia MacKenzie a fresh start eight years ago, and she has vowed to make the most of that chance every day, writes Margaret Jennings.   

As the number of successful organ transplants continues to fall, the Irish Kidney Association (IKA) has renewed its appeal for more people to carry organ donor cards.

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.

Saoirse Perry knew she was close to death before she received a liver transplant last year.

The Irish Kidney Association has described the past year as "disappointing and concerning" for people awaiting kidney transplants.

President Michael D Higgins has said too many people die each year waiting for the transplantation of scarce organs.

Amid her immense grief, Paula Murphy finds some small consolation knowing that the death of her beloved daughter resulted in the precious gift of life for five strangers.

Kerry darts ace Sean Marshall, who struck gold at the European Transplant and Dialysis Games in Poland this week, is to give his medal to his "amazing" donor brother.

Transplant targets for liver, kidney and pancreas operations are behind for the first six months of this year due to a lack of donated organs.

At the age of 47, her survival was a race against the clock but the life-giving power of organ transplantation carried Vera Dwyer through another quarter of a century and into the record books.