# Dublin teacher runs marathon for charity inspired by friend’s liver transplant

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/while-my-friend-waited-for-a-life-giving-gift-of-a-liver-i-began-a-daily-ritual-which-ended-up-becoming-immortalised-in-matching-tattoos-the-heartwarming-reason-one-dublin-marathon-runner-will-t/
- Published: 2026-10-23T19:29:01+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T19:47:31+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16233677/While-friend-waited-life-giving-gift-liver-began-daily-ritual-ended-immortalised-matching-tattoos-heartwarming-reason-one-Dublin-Marathon-runner-start-line.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, World

## Key points

- Niamh Foran is running the Dublin Marathon for the Irish Kidney Association.
- Her friend Edel Cashman received a liver transplant in 2018.
- Their daily 11:11 wish became matching tattoos.

## Summary

Dublin teacher Niamh Foran is running this weekend’s Dublin Marathon to raise money for the Irish Kidney Association, inspired by her friend Edel Cashman’s life-saving liver transplant. Foran’s daily 11:11 wish for Cashman to receive a donor liver became a lasting symbol of their friendship, marked by matching tattoos.

The friends met while studying at University College Dublin. Cashman, who had an autoimmune disease from childhood, became seriously ill after sepsis in 2016 and spent 22 months on the transplant waiting list before receiving a liver in October 2018. Foran chose the charity because it promotes organ donation and supports people with kidney disease and their families.

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