Funeral of Vera Dwyer to take place today
The funeral is taking place today of the south Sligo woman who was the world’s longest-living single lung transplant survivor. With only days to live on May 18th 1998, and in what the first operation of its kind, Vera Dwyer, Carrowcrory, Keash, had the history-making surgery at Harefield Hospital in…
Sligo woman is world’s longest-living lung transplant survivor
A woman who was once given days to live is celebrating being the world’s longest living survivor of a lung transplant. Vera Dwyer from Keash, in South Sligo, travelled to the UK thirty years ago for the procedure as it wasn’t available in Ireland at the time. The 77 year…