just heard this story on rte news. a 14yo was on the runway to fly to uk from ireland for her liver transplant last saturday i think. a donor had died and a suitable liver was available in london for transplant, but because the donor was deceased there was only a 6 to 8 hr window. had to make hospital by 2am so sadly by 11.30pm ish there was no point in making the 4 hr trip. the family apparently got a call at about 7.30pm to come over and were obviously overjoyed as she was waiting since august 2010. they waited for a helicopter or plane from irish aer corps but there was no sign of any coming. apparently base in sligo were never informed of the situation and crew there were basically sitting around through no fault of theirs. baldonnel were informed hours later too and were happy to immediately arrange transport to reach london by 1am. incredibly, someone in authority refused permission to the aer corps for that flight. obviously someone seriously messed up here, its quite disgraceful really. i heard her dad talk on tv3 and obviously it was pretty heartrendering stuff, the girl is very upset still apart from being very ill too. although it didnt cause the mess, i was annoyed to see the mcaleeses were in monaco that weekend no doubt courtesy of aer corps.