Bloody legends: Cork twins celebrate 18th birthday with blood donation party

Eva and Una Brice from Bishopstown, who owe their lives to blood donations, used their birthday, World Blood Donor Day, to encourage young people to donate blood once they turn 18

Eva, left, and Una celebrated their 18th birthday with their parents Pamela and Brendan Brice and their brother Joe with Dr Joan Power, and Oonagh Gilligan, consultant haematologists at the Cork Blood Donor Clinic at St Finbarr's in Cork. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

It’s the best 18th birthday present she could ever give her identical twin sister — passing on the gift of life to someone else.

Eva Brice fulfilled a lifelong promise to her twin Una on their special birthday on Tuesday by taking the first step on the road to becoming a blood donor.