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On this edition of a Living Gift we focus on the story of Michael Mitchell.  Michael lives in Strandhill in County Sligo and received a double lung transplant.       He faced a race against in order to find a matching donor and was also received a cancer diagnosis…

Ireland’s longest surviving double lung transplant patient who is from Donegal has passed away. Brendan McLaughlin from Stranorlar, had a double lung transplant after nine weeks on a life-support machine. He was originally transplanted in Newcastle, England on the 11th of August, 1992. Mr McLoughlin was born with cystic fibrosis,…