A 13-year old boy who had sued over the circumstances of his birth at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin has settled his High Court case for €7.25million.

Screening programmes should not be paused, the health minister has said, after several professional medical bodies warned their viability was under threat in the wake of a recent landmark High Court judgment.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Cian O’Carroll, the solicitor for Ruth Morrissey, has described comments by Dr Peter McKenna of the HSE about the possibility of the withdrawal of screening programmes, as “vindictive.”

Victims of the CervicalCheck scandal are pleading for other women to be spared the ordeal that a terminally-ill cancer patient was put through, to win her landmark compensation case.

Terminally ill Ruth Morrissey and her husband Paul who sued over her CervicalCheck smear tests were today awarded a total of €2.1m by the High Court in her landmark action.

A High Court judge will tomorrow morning hand down judgement in the case of terminally ill Ruth Morrissey who has sued the HSE and two US laboratories over the alleged misreading of her CervicalCheck smear slides.

A solicitor representing CervicalCheck victims has questioned if halting the smear test audit a year ago was an attempt to “put a lid” on the number of women affected by the scandal.

The High Court judge hearing the action by terminally ill Ruth Morrissey against the HSE and two US laboratories over the alleged misreading of her CervicalCheck smear slides hopes to give his judgement in the test case in early May.

The most senior Government health adviser attempted to block a review of CervicalCheck the day after Vicky Phelan called for an investigation into the screening programme.

In the chronicles of CervicalCheck, April 25, 2018 will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

“Check, check and recheck.” That was the message from Emma Mhic Mhathúna for those dealing with the cervical smear tests of Irish women.

Emma Mhic Mhathúna came to the Four Courts a victor not a victim.

Emma Mhic Mhathúna and her five children have launched a High Court action over alleged delays relating to CervicalCheck smears.

“If I do die, I do not want it to be in vain.”

Budgets allocated for the Health Service Executive (HSE) are unaffected by financial settlements paid out in cases of alleged negligence brought against the HSE, the solicitor for Vicky Phelan has said.

The Government is “open to” changing legislation to guarantee any investigation into the cervical screening scandal is carried out in public.

The woman who exposed the cervical cancer screening scandal is adamant that she wants investigations into the affair to be held in public.

The Government will not fast-track a compensation scheme for hundreds of women affected by the cervical cancer scandal despite 17 women dying.

The CervicalCheck scandal may involve far more than the 206 women identified by the HSE, the solicitor representing Vicky Phelan has suggested.

The partner of a man who died from a massive brain bleed after being diagnosed three times in a month with migraine fears other patients with severe headaches could still be at risk.

A young father with severe headaches who was sent home from hospital three times in three weeks diagnosed with migraines died days later from a brain bleed.

A young father with severe headaches who was sent home from hospital three times in three weeks diagnosed with migraines died days later from a brain bleed.

The HSE yesterday expressed its sincere regret and apology to the parents and family of a five-day-old baby girl who died in Cork University Maternity Hospital.

A young wife was yesterday left devastated after a surgeon who clipped both of her fallopian tubes was found not guilty of poor professional performance at a fitness to practice inquiry at the Medical Council in Dublin.

Witnesses at the inquest into the deaths of two men on a fishing trip in 2010 have described how they saw one of the men struggling in the water and then disappearing underneath, just seconds before a nearby fisherman reached him.

Olive Fahey had to surrender her anonymity and go all the way to the High Court because the HSE and those involved in her breast cancer misdiagnosis “behaved appallingly” as they contested the legal case for five years.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has apologised to a 56-year-old Co Tipperary woman after medics failed to diagnose her breast cancer on three occasions.

LIMERICK’S Belltable was turned into a noise chamber yesterday when a nearby garage disrupted it’s official reopening.

THESE proceedings were not taken for financial gain, according to the Rossiter family’s solicitor Cian O’Carroll, but because after two years the Justice Minister and the gardaí had failed to deal with the allegations of assault on Brian.

BRIAN ROSSITER’S mother Siobhán said the only way to describe the past six years “is to say that a big massive chunk has been taken from our lives”.

THE parents of schoolboy Brian Rossiter are to proceed with a High Court action against the State over their son’s death.

THE inquest into the death of schoolboy Brian Rossiter, who died after being in Garda custody six years ago, has been adjourned indefinitely.

A JUDICIAL review of the inquest into the death of a 14-year-old boy following overnight detention in Garda custody gets under way in the High Court today.

A MOTHER whose son died after his motorbike helmet failed and fell off during an accident called yesterday for better guarantees from helmet makers.

CONFLICTING new evidence from a forensic pathologist will be heard at the inquest into the death of a schoolboy who died days after falling unconscious in Garda custody, a coroner ruled yesterday.

THE inquest into the death of Brian Rossiter, who died two days after falling unconscious while in Garda custody, was further adjourned yesterday following a request from his family to await the publication of an independent inquiry into the circumstances of his death.

A REPORT into the circumstances surrounding the death of Brian Rossiter, who died two days after falling unconscious while in garda custody, has been completed.

THE findings of a reportinto the circumstances surrounding the arrest and detention of a 14-year-old boy who died two days after falling unconscious while in garda custody will be available within weeks, it emerged yesterday.

A 26-YEAR-OLD who drank 12 or 13 pints of cider said he head-butted 14-year-old Brian Rossiter, kicked him in the head and gave him an upper cut into the jaw, all because he made a comment about his brother.

A GRIEVING father has vowed not to rest until he finds out who is responsible for his 14-year-old son’s death.

PAT ROSSITER said he hoped to get “the truth and nothing else” as a statutory inquiry opened in Dublin yesterday into his son’s death three years ago.

An inquiry into the death of a 14-year-old boy who fell into a coma while in garda custody will not reveal the full truth about what happened to him, his family said today.

MORE than 100 witnesses will be called to give evidence in an inquiry into the death of a teenage boy who fell in to a coma while in Garda custody.

The solicitor for Brian Rossiter's parents has said he is concerned about the cost implications as a result of the inquiry into the youngster's death.

Obsolete legislation from the 1920s is being used to inquire into the death of a schoolboy in garda custody, the Dáil heard today.

THE parents of a 14-year-old who died after a night in garda custody will press ahead with a civil claim against the Garda Commissioner and the Minister for Justice for the wrongful killing of their son, even if they are unable to take part in a State-ordered inquiry.

THE family of a 14-year-old who died in suspicious circumstances while in garda custody have served High Court writs on the Justice Minister and Garda Commissioner for his wrongful killing.

The family of teenager Brian Rossiter, who died after falling into a coma while in garda custody, are angry about the proposed inquiry into his death and may decide not to co-operate with it, their solicitor warned today.