Meadhbh McGivern has been moved out of intensive care, one week on from her transplant operation.

The CEO of the Health Service Executive Cathal Magee has said every effort will be made to support Meadhbh McGivern after her life-saving transplant surgery in the UK.

The father of a Leitrim schoolgirl who underwent a liver transplant in London has spoken of his shock at discovering that a state aircraft will not be provided to transport his daughter home.

LIVER transplant teenager Meadhbh McGivern is relatively stable in intensive care after undergoing a 12-hour surgery, her father said.

Leitrim teenager Meadhbh McGivern is said to be in a "relatively stable" condition after undergoing marathon liver transplant surgery in the UK.

WHEN Christiaan Barnard placed another person’s heart in Louis Washkansky’s torso in 1967 he had reached one of the great milestones of medicine.

MEADHBH McGivern’s father has said that he was shocked at a report’s finding that no single body had overall responsibility for co-ordinating travel plans for patients requiring transplant surgery in Britain.

Minister for Health James Reilly, the Health Service Executive and Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin have welcomed a HIQA report into the failutres which prevented a teenage transplant patient from travelling for surgery.

A Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) inquiry into the failed transportation of Leitrim girl Meadhbh McGivern for transplant surgery last month has found that an "inherently risky" system that relied on individuals led to the failure.

The father of a teenage girl who missed her chance to get a liver transplant because of a delay in transporting her to a hospital in London says he hopes lessons can be learned from his daughter's misfortune.

AN investigation into the circumstances that led to a young girl being unable to fly to a London hospital for a liver transplant is expected to be completed in two to three weeks.

An inquiry has been ordered after a teenage girl missed out on a vital liver transplant in London because no aircraft could be sourced.