Politicians make important blood donations

TDs and senators from across the political divide have taken a trip aboard the blood bus to highlight the importance of donating blood.

Members of the Oireachtas were yesterday collected from Leinster House and brought to a blood-donation clinic on Dublin’s D’Olier St as part of a drive to recruit around 15,000 new donors.

Health Minister Simon Harris said: “Only about 3% of the eligible population actually make blood donations, but yet about one in four of us will require blood transfusions at some stage during our life. It’s so important that any of us who are eligible to donate blood do go ahead and do it.”