Organ Donor Awareness Week: ‘Hearing your child cry at night and being unable to help because you are tied to a machine is crushing’
Five-year-old kidney transplant recipient Liam O’Connor (right) and his twin brother Daniel from Artane at the launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week. Photo: Andres Poveda
Eilish O'Regan
Michelle Geraghty remembers the time she spent her nights rigged up to a life-saving machine, unable to look after her crying baby son Dylan.
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