1. 3,000 donations are needed in Ireland every week

2. Red cells have a shelf life of 35 days

3. Platelets have a shelf life of just 5 days

4. Only 3% of the Irish population are donors, providing blood for a population of 4 million

5. One in four people will need a transfusion at some point in their lives

6. A car accident victim may require up to 30 units of blood

7. A bleeding ulcer could require anything between 3-30 units of blood

8. A coronary artery bypass may use between 1-5 units of blood.

9. Over 1,000 people receive transfusions every week in Ireland

10. An average adult has between 10 and 12 pints of blood - a blood donation is 470 mls, just slightly less than a pint

'Cordelia, feel free to drop dead of a wasting disease in the next twenty seconds.'
Xander

'I'm not saying that we should kill a teacher every day just so I can lose weight, I'm just saying when tragedy strikes, we have to look on the bright side.'
Cordelia

'I'm getting the brush off for Captain Peroxide. It doesn't necessarily bring out the champion in me.'
Angel

'Sometimes our missions end up with you trying to kill me. I'm not fond of those.'
Spike

'I'm telling you, I don't need a new Watcher. No offense, lady. I just have this problem with authority figures. They end up kind of dead.'
Faith

'I swear, men can be such jerks sometimes. Dead or alive.'
Willow

'It speaks to us... guides us... Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?'
Angel

'You found the last known Urn of Osiris on eBay?'
Tara

'I could smack you so hard your eyeballs would switch sockets.'
Xander

'You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood... blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.'
Spike

'That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.'
Mayor

'I know slayers. No matter how many people they've got around them, they fight alone. Life of the chosen one; the rest of us be damned.'
Spike

'We're all on death's door repeatedly ringing the doorbell, like maniacal girl scouts trying to make quota.'
Anya

This isn't some fairy tale. When I kiss you, you don't wake up from a deep sleep and live happily ever after.'
Angel

'It's horrible! That's me as a vampire? I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.'
Willow

'Well... We talked. And... and then he ripped out the heart of a demon and fed it to me... and then we talked some more.'
Buffy

'Well, this is new territory for me. I mean, my valentines are usually met with heartfelt restraining orders.'
Xander

'I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.'
Cordelia

'I don't like spiders, okay? Their furry bodies, and their sticky webs, and what do they need all those legs for anyway? I'll tell you - for crawling across your face in the middle of the night.'
Willow

That's not your world. You belong in the shadows... with me.'
Spike

'There's something about food that moves by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.'
Joyce

'Harmony. A vampire? She must be dying without a reflection.'
Buffy

'You know, everything used to be so clear. Slayer. Vampire. Vampire kills Slayer, sucks her dry, picks his teeth with her bones. It's always been that way.'
Spike

'Testosterone is a great equalizer. It turns all men into morons.'
Giles

'I'm aware. I know every molecule of myself and everything around me. No one - no human, no demon - has ever been as awake and alive as I am. You are all just shadows.'
Adam

'I'm not saying I didn't make any mistakes. But last time I checked, slaughtering half of Europe wasn't one of them.'
Xander

'Rejection I can handle because of the years of training.'
Willow

'When you become a vampire, the demon takes your body, but it doesn't get your soul. That's gone! No conscience, no remorse... It's an easy way to live.'
Angel

'Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes? "Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged, cup of tea?"'
Spike

I mean, you men. It's all about the sex! You find a woman, drag her to your den, do whatever's necessary just as long as you get the sex. I tell you men haven't changed since the dawn of time.'
Willow

'Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.'
Angel

'Death is what a slayer breathes, what a slayer dreams about when she sleeps.'
Buffy

'I want to take comfort in you, and I know it'll cost me my

My parents were great. Tasted a lot like chicken.'
Angel

'Somebody get me a lawyer, because my civil rights have seriously been violated. Oh, I get it, I get it. You all can cater to the demon, cater to the dead man, but what about the black man!'
Gunn

'As much as I like your family - and they're great, honest, I'd really prefer if they didn't cannibalize me.'
Doyle

'Hey, I'd rather have a hydrochloric acid facial. I'd rather invite a hive of wasps to nest in my throat. I'd rather sit through a junior high school production of Cats - You see where I'm going with this?'
The Host

Tell you what, I’ll torture you for a few unbelievably long hours and then you can tell me if this is the lifestyle for you.'
Angel

'Everybody dies. I'm just trying to make sure that when we die, we stay dead.'
Gunn

'I'm here to fight you, sir. To the death. Preferably yours.'
Wesley

'You’d think people get enough gratuitous violence watching Jerry Springer.'
Cordelia