Wear your Christmas Jumper OR make a donation to support our work

Christmas Jumper Day is back! We are asking you to wear you jumper and raise funds and awareness of haemochromatosis with your friends, in your workplace or at home anytime during the month of December. Although National Christmas Jumper day falls on the 12th December, you can choose any date that suits you right up until the 31st December! Visit: www.idonate.ie/event/ihachristmasjumper2024 and just click ‘Start Fundraising’ to set up a personal page for the IHA. You can also share your page among friends and family.

Wear your best or worst Christmas Jumper and help raise vital funds for our work. Whether you are at home, in your workplace or club gather your friends, family or work colleagues together to get into the festive spirit!

Or you might like to make a donation to support our work. All donations big or small will help support our helpline work, deliver more patient events and distribute more education and information packs to patients and medical professionals.

You can also ask your company to support us by making a Christmas donation to our work – Donate Here: https://haemochromatosis.ie/donate-to-the-iha or email miriam@haemochromatosis.ie for more information.

IHA News and Events

Damian Boylan is Cork’s New Lord Mayor

We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to Damian Boylan, friend, advocate and member of the Irish Haemochromatosis Association, who has just been elected as the new Lord Mayor of Cork! Damian has been an amazing public representative for several years and has made it his mission to raise awareness of haemochromatosis, having been diagnosed himself 23 years ago.

Read More »

‘We are Family’ HUK Haemochromatosis Event Belfast

Haemochromatosis UK are hosting a haemochromatosis in-person event in Belfast on the 7th October 2026. Everyone is welcome to attend. Local, national, and international standard experts will deliver a dedicated programme of talks in the beautiful Titanic Hotel. This conference is relevant to anyone affected across the UK and Ireland – even further afield. 

Read More »

World Haemochromatosis Awareness Week, 1-7th June 2026

World Haemochromatosis Awareness Week launches!! This is the most important time of the year, when we urge everyone in Ireland to recognise the symptoms of the nation’s ‘Hidden Condition’, often called the ‘Celtic Gene’. Sister and brother, Emilia and Teddy Eustace joined Alice Kelly, Anna McCarthy and Brian Keegan to launch the week.

Read More »