The Belfast Telegraph once again featured Charlene, after it’s sister paper the Sunday Life covered her story the week before. A huge response was recievied from that publicity – so the Tele wanted to do a follow up!

A jubilant Charlene Barr has been given the green light for her life-saving double lung transplant. The Co Armagh teenager, whose heart-warming story featured in last week’s Sunday Life, had been told earlier this year that she was in urgent need of the critical surgery, but failed to make it on to the waiting list because she was underweight.

Her deteriorating health over the past year caused her weight to plummet to just five stone five lbs.