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Mícheál Ó Braonáin Image Name: Mícheál Ó Braonáin Description: Mícheál Ó Braonáin, kidney transplant recipient.
Donncha Mac Con Iomaire Image Name: Donncha Mac Con Iomaire Description: Donncha Mac Con Iomaire
Donncha Mac Con Iomaire Image Name: Donncha Mac Con Iomaire Description: Donncha Mac Con Iomaire

Donncha Mac Con Iomaire a chuirfidh an tsraith nua seo i láthair, ina gcloisfimid scéalta a bhfuil lorg láidir fágtha acu ar shaol dhaoine sa bpobal.  Inniu, sa chéad chlár, beidh sé dírithe ar dheonú orgáin.  Is iondúil nach déantar mórán cainte ar dheonú orgáin nó go dtagann an crú ar an tairne, agus is mar sin an scéal atá ag Carmel Laffey ón bhFairche i gCo. na Gaillimhe a chaill a mac i dtimpiste cairr, agus cloisfimid a scéal siúd inniu. Cloisfimid freisin ó Mhícheál Ó Braonáin, a bhfuil a shaol athraithe go hiomlán ó fuair sé duán nua, agus míneoidh an Dr. Emer Ní Churraidhín, Stiúrthóir Cliniciúil ar Dheonú Orgáin do ghrúpa ospidéal na Gaillimhe, do Dhonncha faoi mar a oibríonn an córas iontach seo.

Donncha Mac Con Iomaire will present this new series, featuring personal stories that have greatly affected members of the community.  Today, in the first programme in the series, we’ll learn about organ donation.  This is often something not spoken about until a tragedy occurs, and that was the experience of Carmel Laffey from Clonbur, Co. Galway, who lost her son in a car accident, whom we’ll hear from today in the show.  Mícheál Ó Braonáin will tell us how his life was changed when he received a new kidney, and Dr Emer Curran, Clinical Lead in Organ Donation for the Galway University Hospital Saolta Group, explains to Donncha how the system works.