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YOU MIGHT REMEMBER the story of Myles Jordan, who we spoke to back in 2016.
He was born with a condition known as congenital nephrotic syndrome of Finnish type, meaning a filter that sits on top of his kidneys does not function correctly.
Two years ago, he had just become eligible to go on the transplant list. He had no kidneys, was undergoing daily dialysis, fed through a tube, and limited to just 156ml of liquid water a day.
His parents, Sasha Jordan and Eavan Ryan, were unable to donate their own kidneys.
Now six, Myles’s life has changed dramatically. The final family member to be checked for eligibility, his uncle Louis Jordan, turned out to be a perfect match.
The operation was carried out in late 2016.
Although the journey wasn’t all plain sailing for Myles, his life is now that as a normal six-year-old boy.
“Ordinary people get to do extraordinary things,” his uncle said.
TheJournal.ie caught up with the family for Organ Donor Awareness Week, which starts today.
Watch our full report above, and for more details on how to get a donor card, visit IKA.ie
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Sleepwalking in NATO.
@Dave Grant: You’ll know when Michael Martin is lying by the fact his lips are moving.
@Brian Keelty: Exactly it is fact that he is a proven liar, several instances of his lies are on record.
War is wrong, we all know this and we have a right to protect our young from being used as pawns by an EU army.
Look at all the US teens that have been sacrificed by their country, we don’t want that happening here, we are neutral and long may that remain.
@Dave Grant: soldiers needed at home to bate the ordinary Joe & Mary Soap into having their villages overwhelmed with illegal immigrants.
@Thomas Sheridan: everything is “immigrant, immigrant, IMMIGRANT” with you far-right racists. Go get your latest “news” from skangers on your socials.
@9QRixo8H: you omitted “illegal”
@Thomas Sheridan: That’s just the new buzzword. How can there be illegal immigrants? If they come here seeking asylum, that’s legal. And how many cases?
Article has NOTHING to do with immigrants, illegal or not, yous are obsessed with skin colour.
@9QRixo8H: You’re the No1 race-baiter on this site, you really do need help with your obsession!
@Brian Hunt: I get it Brian re @D. Peadar, but seriously, he replied to this “soldiers needed at home to bate the ordinary Joe & Mary Soap into having their villages overwhelmed with illegal immigrants” – I know which comment I have a problem with, and it’s not @D. Peadar’s
@9QRixo8H: @D. Peadar: only “legal” in the eyes of the self ðeluded, the native, the useful idìòts and the people making fortunes from it.
@Thomas Sheridan: what is an ‘illegal’ immigrant?
Martin is a slither lower than a snakes belly,so full of himself ,thinks he is world leader poncing around the place,he never lost that teacher thing of never question me,so full of arrogance that he never answers what the opposition asks the actual questions,
@Fran Mooney: The Teacher thing for the Bertie Kisser didn’t last long.
U have him off to a T
Can Martin ever just answer a question? He just attacks the policy of the opposition instead of answering it.
The problem in all of this is these are huge decisions and the competence and motives of our politicians who are making these decisions is really questionable. We have a minister for justice who wants to train convicted criminals to work in our family homes upgrading energy efficiency ratings for prolonged periods of time while the individual who spends an hour assessing and grading our homes energy efficiency cannot do that if they have a criminal record, how stupid us that. We are taxed on the fuel we use to keep ourselves warm in winter but not on the fuel we use to fly to our second home in Majorca, he w insulting is that to those just getting by, competent politicians would know that and see the inhumanity in it. Yet we are expected to trust them with a decision like this……. bonkers.
Whoever rings my doorbell for upcoming elections will be asked a simple question
Do you and your party promise not to join us into NATO?
Any answer other than a direct and similar YES will elicit an F off and a slammed door.
@Padraig O’Brien: A FF canvasser called to my house 2 weeks ago, I asked him very nicely about his parties links with obstructing the Stardust enquiry and he just bowed his head and walked away as meek as a lamb.
You’d wonder why they give a moments notice to the vapourings of PBP. This group of howling malcontents are more of a comedy act. Sit down Brid. I recall you bookending very mild support for Ukraine, with a loud attack on NATO “expansion”. How dare countries make their own decisions…
@honey badger: They’re elected representatives.. or would you like to silence all opposition to this government.. with your daily rants against SF, PBF or anybody else on the other side of the chamber, it would appear so. How very democratic of you all the same.
@Brian: I think PBP’s heart is in the right place but they do fetishise our ‘neutrality’, which may not be realistic in the turbulent world that’s unfolding. Nor should Putin have a veto over where our troops go and what they do.
@Brendan O’Brien: Regardless of their position on anything. And I haven’t stayed mine in regards to this issue . .my response was to the musings of HB as to why they’re given a moments notice .. they’re elected representatives and are entitled to speak in the Dail.. I won’t get into the juvenile name calling.. just seems to be par for the course with that person.
@honey badger: Ireland has always made a decision to remain NEUTRAL. If the government want to change that, they should put it to the people. Our neutrality has always protected ireland from conflict. Also, I’m not a fan of PBP, but fianna fail have consistently lied to the people of ireland. Brid Smith is right on this, Martin just looking to secure his seat at the table in Europe and again screw over the people of ireland
@Brian: It’s still astonishing, how that’s a miniscule party can get so much airtime on the news and articles into The Journal.
@Wolfgang Bonow: Leaders questions are more often than not reported on.. Questions are put by opposing parties.. Big and small .. They have approx same amount of seats as Labour(7) and Social Democrats(6)with 5 seats.. I have to say I don’t see any huge difference in the coverage those 3 parties get . . And if there is any small difference maybe its because they’re more vocal.. which I assume is a good thing in a party you vote into opposition?
@Roy Dowling: OK Mr Pedantic.. PBP-Solidarity.. Mick Barry .. Happy now Roy ?.
@Roy Dowling: You’d be known known now Roy.. through these parts anyways.. for being a tad pedantic..Lol. Anyway answered your question.. you’re welcome. And all calm here thanks .. no need for the abbreviated vulgarities lol
I would not work do not trust Martin or FF or FG . They will have us fighting someone else’s wars before we can blink . If they don’t , the people who are immigrants will have us fighting for the country they come from.
War is siht .. Peace is good
The cheek of MM calling someone a liar, he has decades of experienced lying under his belt. BS is correct based on the information available to us and the current and past form of this shambles of a government. Removal of the Triple Lock will send this country on a path that it can never return from. Brussels and the unknowns that run it will most certainly call Irish cannon fodder to the frontline if they need to do so and they will do it without a care for any Irish person or family. We are not persons to them, merely PPS numbers and tax generators. When it comes to war all bets are off and anything goes, prisoners being taken out of custody to go and fight on the front is commonplace, changing conscription rules to draw in the old or young are also the tactics that they will resort to when the voluntarily signed up men and women have already been slaughtered. We need to stop being pushed around by Brussels before it’s too late. If they remove the Triple Lock nothing may happen about it for years but you will be sorry when they are sending your 18 year old grandson or granddaughter 2000 miles away to Bulgaria to fight Turkish invaders
#IrelandOptsOut
Let us decide our own destiny.
PBP and others with chips heavly weighed on both sholders turn me off and leave me cold and i supect many others,forever playing the working class victim card Irish lefties must sound very familar to Eastern European communists/ socialists, its no surprise they get such little political support in this country.
Ireland roughly spends 0.2 % of its GDP on defence. To join NATO, a State must spend at a minimum of 2 % on defence. When Simon Coveney was FA and Defence Minister, he said Ireland would spend 1% of GDP on Defence going into the future. I think Ireland joining NATO is unrealistic or either a long ways away. I think all parties are responsible for misinformation on this emotive topic
Rare occasion when they’re both telling the truth, by calling each other liars!
We’re not neutral. We never have been. You won’t find that word in the constitution. Lion want my government deciding where Irish soldiers go. Not Putin. Not the UN. Not the USA. The rest is the usual nonsense that you read on here.
Opinion : Mouthy Murphy added ignorant Guffaws and Donkey laughs during the Tanaiste’s response to Bríd PB4P. Not unexpected from a wasted seat occupier.
Just cause our peacekeeping deployments haven’t been vetoed by the UN since the Nice Treaty has been in place doesn’t mean it won’t ever be. Our peacekeeping deployments are effectively controlled by the UN who have members that aren’t currently playing nice with others. I personally don’t want them dictating our peacekeeping deployments. Is there a knock on of removing it, yes it means putting full trust in our government so let’s vote in some sensible ones so next term.
@Brian: I never entertain vacuous strawman arguments. Try again.
@honey badger: You can categorise my perfectly valid answer to your inspid question/comment all you like. I don’t need to try again.. I was right the 1st time around..
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