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Newry schoolboy Daniel Greer has passed away at home today at just sixteen years of age, after fighting leukaemia for over two years.
A pupil of the Abbey Grammar School and a talented musician who was a member of the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland, Daniel took ill in May 2022 and urgently needed a bone marrow transplant. HIs illness led his family to ask people to sign up to the UK stem cell donor register and local individuals and organisations embraced the request with many promotional campaigns locally and further afield resulting in thousands of people registering.
After two stem cell transplants in May things seemed positive concerning Daniel's cancer treatment but cruelly just two months later he was told that his leukaemia had returned and a month later he developed sepsis. Though very ill he and his family went to the Coldplay concert in Croke Park earlier this month.
