Knowing the signs of skin cancer

About 12,000 people are diagnosed with skin cancer in Ireland every year. Jonathan deBurca Butler visits Boots’ mole screening service where moles are scanned and the results sent away to British labs.

The other morning, as I readied my two boys for summer camp, I called over the eldest, seven-year-old Fionn. “Oh, no suncream,” he said to me. “I hate this.” I know how he feels. I hate it too. The smell of the stuff, its sticky, slippy gooiness and the way, when you’re on the beach, it mixes with sand and makes things terribly uncomfortable.