Women have been let down and should have reassurance

It’s hard not to get tired and emotional while raking over the Dáil debates of the Noughties when screening failures and smear test backlogs were also making waves.

Thu, 13 Jun, 2019 - 01:00

Catherine Shanahan

Dr Gabriel Scally, in his report, discovered that one laboratory analysed Irish women’s smear samples for years while unaccredited, while 16 laboratories were doing CervicalCheck work, and not six as he had originally been told, writes Catherine Shanahan

It’s hard not to get tired and emotional while raking over the Dáil debates of the Noughties when screening failures and smear test backlogs were also making waves.