Kildare mum wants to contact 5 people whose lives were saved by her son's organs

A Co Kildare mum who lost her son in a car crash has said she wants to speak to the people whose lives were saved by donating his organs.

Dara Ooi Cottuli was 21 when he died in December 2015, one week after an accident in Kilteel.

Mary Kabani believes he was with her in spirit when she told doctors at Beaumont hospital she wanted to donate his organs.

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She said: “I had never before thought of organ donation, it was not something we had ever discussed as a family.

“The words just came out of my mouth.

“I think it was Dara who wanted me to say it.”

Mary said she wants to know the five people who benefitted from his organs and she thinks it would mean a lot to the families of donors if that was possible. She added: “We know that five people got a chance at life because of Dara.

She told the Irish Mirror: “A 63-year-old man got his heart, a 52-year-old woman got his liver, his lungs went to a 41-year-old man and his kidneys went to two men.”

The Clane woman was able to contact the man who received Dara’s lungs through social media and she took great comfort from speaking to him.