'We're both happy and healthy': Couple tie the knot after garda donates kidney to wife

'We're both happy and healthy': Couple tie the knot after garda donates kidney to wife

Briona and Shane got married after the groom donated his kidney to his wife in 2020. Photo: Moat Hill Photography. 

A couple from the Midlands exchanged weddings vows over the August bank holiday weekend after the groom, garda Shane Hunter, donated a kidney to his wife, art teacher Briona Reynolds. 

Shane, 31, from Athlone, and Briona, 30, from Tubber in Co. Offaly, postponed their wedding last year due to Covid restrictions, and the impact of Briona's health struggles, which saw her having to get dialysis three times a week.

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