Firefighter’s kidney saves brother’s life

A fourth-generation firefighter gave his older brother one of his kidneys after a virus left his older sibling with irreversible kidney damage.

Ger Dolan, 27, did not tell his family or colleagues that he had contacted Beaumont Hospital to begin the process to see if he could be a suitable donor for his ailing brother, Jimmy, 32.

The transplant went well and was one of 51 living donor kidney transplants which took place at Beaumont Hospital last year.