Team Ireland's Transplant Athletes Set For British Games

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Athy's JP O'Neill will be involved.

Twenty transplant recipients will represent Ireland at this year's British Transplant Games, showcasing the life-changing impact of organ donation.

Among the team is Athy's JP O'Neill who's kidney failure in 1996 led to dialysis and then a life changing transplant in 1998.

Three decades later he continues to enjoy excellent health.

Liver transplant recipient Mike Keohane from West Cork will also be chasing an eleventh consecutive gold medal in the five-kilometre race walk.
 
Kidney transplant recipient and former British Transplant Games gold medallist Glenn Clinton is returning to Sheffield - the Dubliner is hoping to add to his medal collection - while encouraging more people to support organ donation.

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