MINNESOTA, USA native Nick Hines (46) has made Ireland his home for the past 21 years.

A Laois man was among a congregation of close to 1600 from throughout Ireland, who attended the Irish Kidney Association’s 39th Annual Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving for organ donors and grateful transplant recipients.

Beaumont Hospital was taken to the High Court by the Irish Kidney Association (IKA) after it repeatedly failed to hand back a 13-bedroom support centre to the charity.