John McAleer, 78, to compete in European Transplant Championships
John, a kidney transplant recipient, is a retired lecturer and former head of department at Ulster University will compete in golf at the championships, as well as in the Petanque singles and doubles events and 10-pin bowling.
This will be his fourth time competing at the biennial European event, and his second time as a kidney transplant recipient, as twice before he competed as a dialysis patient.
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Hide AdAt the games in Krakow, Poland in 2014 he won a silver medal in golf, beating off stiff competition.
His first competition as part of Transplant Team Ireland was in 2010 as a dialysis patient when he reached the podium in the European event hosted in Dublin.
Two years earlier he won a medal at the European Championships in Croatia, again as a dialysis patient.
Just a year after his Croatia success, while out playing golf, he received a call for his life-changing kidney transplant at the City Hospital, Belfast. This long-awaited call came after undergoing four years of dialysis treatment.