Cystic fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley is tweeting that she is in hospital having received a call that a donor has been found for a possible double lung transplant.

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Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

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.

Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch has said she is hopeful of a breakthrough in the protracted dispute between a Cork hospital and a cystic fibrosis charity that has stalled the development of a €2.3m ward for patients with respiratory illness.

One of the country’s leading campaigners for improved cystic fibrosis services has urged a charity that raised funds for a Cork hospital not to hand over the money until beds are ringfenced for CF patients.

It took the death of a friend before cystic fibrosis (CF) rights campaigner Órla Tinsley was finally able to access an appropriate hospital bed, almost a week after she first presented for treatment.

IT’S too late, I know, to try to influence the budget.

Women’s business organisation Network Ireland has named Natasha Lynch, the managing director of Essential French in Cork, as its self-employed business-woman of the year.

A dedicated unit to treat cystic fibrosis (CF) patients has been described as a tribute to campaigners who died before it was built.

HOW very disappointing that our new Health Minister James Reilly declined either to turn up on Primetime or contribute to Orla Tinsley’s special report on cystic fibrosis.

THE Irish electorate has a history of voting for “gombeen men and gombeen women” and “the wrong types”, controversial broadcaster Eamon Dunphy has said.

The contract for a long-awaited unit for those living with Cystic Fibrosis is expected to be signed later today.

COMMITTED healthcare activist and part-time journalist Orla Tinsley was last night named 2009 Irish Tatler Woman of the Year at a ceremony in Dublin’s Mansion House.

The young cystic fibrosis sufferer who has been leading the campaign for better facilities say she is adopting a cautious approach to the latest government promise on the issue.

JUST as the warning to the Health Services Executive about defective cancer screening equipment at Portlaoise began to slip from the frontline of public consciousness another tragedy predicted by health professionals has come to pass.