Maedhbh annoyed at missing out on transplant

THE 14-year-old girl deprived of a liver transplant due to failures in the Irish system has said she is not angry but “just annoyed” that she missed out on the life-changing transplant.

Maedhbh McGivern from Ballinamore in Leitrim was standing in an aircraft hangar in Sligo last month, ready to board a helicopter to England, when the flight was called off.

Doctors at King’s Cross Hospital in London had to break the news by phone that the efforts to get Maedhbh a flight had taken so long as to exceed the timeframe for transplantation of a liver from a non-breathing donor.