# Blood donation
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IBTS
New blood donation changes come into effect lifting blanket rules based on sexual orientation
28 Nov 2022
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Blood donation
Ireland's restrictions on blood donation by gay and bisexual men to be eased from next year
22 Dec 2021
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IBTS
Appeal for blood donations as hospitals warned services down to a three-day supply
26 Oct 2021
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blood shortage
Blood shortage sees IBTS importing bulk consignment from UK for first time since 1990s
30 Jun 2021
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Blood donation
Man brings High Court challenge over IBTS policy on gay men donating blood
20 May 2019
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Blood donation
'There's no better symbol of integration than the exchange of blood:' Polish residents launch Bloody Foreigners campaign
31 Jul 2018
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Give Blood
'We have limited time': Urgent appeal for blood donations as just three-day supply left
6 Mar 2018
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appeal
"People always say 'yes absolutely I'll give blood' but they don't" - Why are fewer people giving blood?
21 Oct 2016
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Voices
'They openly debated what sort of sex I had': What it was like being at the centre of the blood-ban case
Tomás Heneghan
13 Aug 2016
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lucy hill
Tourist undergoes emergency surgery after strangers in Thailand queue to give blood
12 Jan 2016
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Blood donation
Irish Blood Transfusion Service: 'We've been exposing donors to developing anaemia'
17 Nov 2015
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Blood donation
European Court of Justice rules lifetime ban of gay men giving blood "may be justified"
29 Apr 2015
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Voices
Gay men still can't donate blood in Ireland – it's not only unfair, it's illogical
Lorraine Courtney
22 Mar 2015
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Overturned
Health Minister Leo Varadkar wants to lift the ban on gay men donating blood
25 Jan 2015
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Cork man starts 'Bloodnominations' after best friend's cancer diagnosis
2 Aug 2014
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