Meadhbh fights back to health after lifesaving liver transplant

Liver transplant teenager Meadhbh McGivern has told how she has become hooked on exercise just eight months after her marathon lifesaving surgery.

The schoolgirl was flown to Britain on the Government’s Learjet for the complex, 13-hour operation last September, two months after a previous attempt to fly her to London failed due to a breakdown in communications.

Less than a year ago, the teenager from Ballinamore, Co Leitrim, was spending all her time in pyjamas painfully moving from her bed to the couch as she waited for her organ transplant.