In the week that we can celebrate the 25th anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer there’s wry good humour and sound common sense in the new campaign to encourage more young people to give blood.

Sixteen third level institutions across Ireland are set to take part in the “Vampire Cup” this autumn in an intervarsity drive to increase the numbers of students participating in the national transfusion service.

The idea is the brainchild of University College Cork final year medicine student Glenn Curtin who learned of a similar initiative in Australia. He said: “I have always been a passionate blood donor. In my family, we donate blood when we turn 18 as a kind of coming-of-age thing.

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