{"id":424636,"date":"2026-04-30T05:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424636\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:34:12","slug":"organ-donation-i-received-a-cadaver-kidney-34-years-ago-and-it-is-still-going-strong-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424636\/","title":{"rendered":"Organ donation: \u2018I received a cadaver kidney 34 years ago and it is still going strong today\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nPaul Bryan has battled kidney disease, lymphoma and heart attacks, but against the odds the cadaver kidney he received 34 years ago is still going strong\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Annette and Paul Bryan. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/M Annette Bryan 002.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Annette and Paul Bryan. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The first time Paul Bryan (70) realised he had an issue with one of his kidneys was in 1981. The then 25-year-old sheet metal worker from Walkinstown, Dublin, was a promising football player with Crumlin GAA Club, and was playing a championship match when he fell and injured his back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cHe had to be carried off the pitch, writhing in pain and brought to Jervis Street Hospital by ambulance,\u201d recalls his wife Annette, a now-retired account supervisor in a multinational company. \u201cAt first, the doctors thought he had a muscular or spinal injury and he was treated with physiotherapy, but one of them spotted something on his chart, and thought it might be a problem with his kidney.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Bryan has battled kidney disease, lymphoma and heart attacks, but against the odds the cadaver kidney he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[117984,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-424636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-erin-mccafferty","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}