Kerry teacher goes from blood donor to beneficiary

A Kerry teacher didn’t realise the importance of donating blood until he needed some himself, he says, as the Irish Blood Transfusion Service launches its latest campaign, ‘Missing Type’.

Steven O’Donovan, from Listowel, began donating blood in 1990, “after threatening to do it for years”.

The ITBS mobile unit would arrive twice a year, setting up camp in one of the local schools. Steven donated every year, for 24 years.