Story saves journalist’s life as medics spot failing kidneys during research

A CORKMAN only discovered his kidneys had almost totally failed while having a medical test as part of his job as a journalist.

Brian Moore was covering a national campaign to encourage more people to give blood when he had his own blood pressure checked — revealing that one of his kidneys had failed and the other was operating at just 11% of full capacity.

The journalist, who was working for the Carlow Nationalist at the time of the discovery last year, is now on a waiting list for a kidney transplant and on medication to maintain healthy blood pressure levels.