Writer dies during transplant operation

AWARD-winning Irish TV screenwriter Frank Deasy has died while receiving a potentially life-saving liver transplant in an Edinburgh hospital.

Writer dies during transplant operation

The writer, who had been on a waiting list in Britain for seven months suffering from liver cancer – a situation he described as an “invisible death row” – passed away at 7.30am yesterday.

“We’d been waiting impatiently for the call, but it wasn’t the news we hoped for,” his brother Frank Deasy told RTÉ’s Liveline, which has been covering the issue since Monday.

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