Dermot Fenton from Glenville passed away aged 41 in January 2016, 17 years after he had the double operation. The 24-year-old cystic fibrosis sufferer Dermot Fenton sitting up in Harefield Hospital, London, after a then rare heart and lung transplant after being rushed there from Cork on the government jet. Pio Fenton told the Anton Savage Show, on Newstalk, that he vividly remembers the beeper Dermot kept with him at all times going off in November 1998. It was the Royal Brompton and Harefield Trust who told Dermot at 7.30pm that a transplant was available. Doctors told the family that Dermot urgently required a lung and heart transplant.

Source: Irish Examiner November 27, 2022 04:33 UTC