Clare Organ Recipient Urges People To Sign Up To Donor Register

An organ donor recipient in Clare is urging anyone who hasn’t signed up to be a donor to do so, and potentially save a life.

The latest report from the HSE, released to mark Organ Donor Awareness Week, shows that 81 families last year donated the organs of a deceased loved one.

In all, this allowed over 200 transplants to be carried out in Irish hospitals.

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Garda Noel Pearse received a donated kidney in January of last year and says the impact of it can’t be understated: