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On Wednesday next, July 31, Peter Conboy from Ballygar, Galway (on the Roscommon border) will embark on a remarkable five-day 240 km distance charity Cycle of Life across the country, starting at 10.30 am from Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin, where his Donegal wife was a patient more than two decades before.

On Wednesday next, July 31, Peter Conboy from Ballygar, Galway (on the Roscommon border) will embark on a remarkable five-day 240 km distance charity Cycle of Life across the country, starting at 10.30 am from Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin, where his Donegal wife was a patient more than two decades before.

Bernie Glynn, from Ballylee, Co Galway, received a kidney from a deceased donor 45 years ago. She has put her name to the Irish Kidney Association’s drive to increase posthumous organ donation.

Drumraney native and single lung transplant recipent, Mary McGarry, was in attendance at the recent recording of the Irish Kidney Association’s 37th annual service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving which will be broadcast on RTE One and RTE Radio One Extra this Sunday, October 30, at 11am.

Galway organ donors will be honoured in a special Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving to be broadcast on RTE 1 on Sunday (11am).

A 18-year-old Knock man will the youngest member of the Irish team that will compete in the European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Championships, which takes place in Vantaa, Finland, from July 10 to 17. Matthew McNieve is a kidney transplant recipient and he is the youngest member of the Irish team.