Monthly Archive: February 2023
Dáithí Mac Gabhann and his family are celebrating the end of a long campaign to change the law on organ donation in Northern Ireland, but they are taking nothing for granted as they vow...
MPs have backed Dáithí’s Law that will allow an opt-out organ donation system to be implemented in Northern Ireland. Named after six-year-old Dáithí Mac Gabhann, who needs a heart transplant, it had been delayed...
The beaming smiles from Dáithí Mac Gabhann and his family said it all at Westminster on Wednesday as MPs officially backed a new organ donation law for Northern Ireland. Read More
Organ donation: ‘Dáithí’s Law is going through’ This is the moment Dáithí Mac Gabhann found out the campaign he and his family have led has changed the law on organ donation in Northern Ireland....
A law ushering in a new opt-out organ donation system in Northern Ireland is due to progress this week after a last-minute intervention by the UK government. Dáithí’s Law, as the legislation is known,...
The assembly met on Tuesday in a bid to pass a stalled organ donation law inspired by a six-year-old boy. But the DUP had already said it would not allow a Speaker to be...
The father of six-year-old Dáithí Mac Gabhann has said Westminster is his last hope for the implementation of opt-out organ transplant legislation in Northern Ireland. The UK Government has indicated that it is unlikely...
The father of a boy who needs a heart transplant has expressed disappointment in the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) after it said it would block an assembly Speaker election on Tuesday. Assembly members had...
Northern Ireland’s Assembly will be recalled on Tuesday in a bid to elect a speaker and debate implementing stalled organ-donation legislation. A petition proposed by Sinn Féin and backed by Alliance has achieved the...
THE father of a West Belfast boy who is waiting on a transplant is to meet with the DUP as pressure mounts on the party to allow for the election of a Speaker at...