Josephine Loughran

Ten Years ago Josephine used to run every day but chose to forgo this pleasure to donate one of the lobes of her lungs to her sister Sheila. Sjheila had cystic fibrosis and was in need of a lung transplant, but was rapidly running out of time. The transplant worked but Sheila dies a liitle later. As part of the process Josephine agreed for the personal story around the procedure to be filmed and made into a Horizon documentary which did a great deal to raise awareness of the disease and the need to more people to carry organ donor cards. Josephine does not run so much now but it would be great to see her carrying the torch in recognition of her selfless sacrifice.