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Footballing legend Alan Shearer has joined the Donate4Dáithí campaign, after wishing the young Belfast boy luck for his hospital appointment in Newcastle on Tuesday. Dáithí Mac Gabhann attended the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon...

Young campaigner Dáithí Mac Gabhann has helped launch new Irish language school resources, aimed at introducing organ donation education at an early age. They will provide Key Stage1 and 2 pupils with the information...

Dáithí Mac Gabhann has issued a message to Stormont leaders to restore funding for the NI Children’s Hospice. The Department of Health has said it is urgently looking into planned cuts to the service,...

Liverpool fans across the world were left heartbroken on Friday at the news of Jurgen Klopp’s departure from the club at the end of the season. And for one LFC fanatic, it was not...

Máirtín Mac Gabhann, who has campaigned for a heart for his young son Dáithí has been awarded the accolade of Postgraduate Student of the Year by Ulster University Máirtín was honoured at winter graduation on Monday,...

Dáithí Mac Gabhann has just become a big brother as his father announced the “exciting” arrival of twins. Máirtín shared the heart-warming news on social media on Sunday. In a social media post, he...

Christmas has come early for Belfast child Dáithí Mac Gabhann as he got to meet some of his Liverpool heroes. Dáithí, from Ballymurphy, needs a heart transplant and has been on the register now...

West Belfast boy Dáithí Mac Gabhann today reaches the milestone mark of 2,000 days on the heart transplant waiting list. The seven-year-old, who helped inspire changes to Northern Ireland’s organ donation laws, has been waiting for a...

The fight to normalise paediatric organ donation in Northern Ireland is far from over, the father of seven-year-old Dáithí Mac Gabhann has said. Dáithí has been battling Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) since birth and...

The family of Dáithí Mac Gabhann have called on other families to talk about organ donation for children – as he marks 2,000 days on the transplant waiting list. Dáithí, and his dad, joined...