In letters seen by the Irish Examiner, Mr Harris has called internet company bosses to a meeting to focus on how to combat the spread of misinformation about vaccinations.

The leader of Aontú has accused the Health Minister of using appalling language in relation to the Cervical Check scandal last week.

The HSE was still working last night to establish if all 52 women who tested positive for a virus that increases the risk of cancer have been made aware of their results.

Micheál Martin has questioned how “alarm bells” didn’t go off in the Department of Health when they received a letter from a woman waiting on smear test results.

Time is one of the most commonly misunderstood and miscalculated instruments of power.

Ministers have expressed full confidence in Simon Harris over the latest CervicalCheck controversy impacting 800 women.

The HSE has known since February of an IT glitch that led to delayed smear test results for 800 women — but mistakenly believed that the laboratory processing the tests was communicating the results manually.

The HSE has been urged to clarify if there are any clinical implications for the 800 women who did not receive smear test results as a result of an IT glitch.

One of the country's leading HPV vaccine campaigners Laura Brennan has died at the age of 26.

Parents who don’t vaccinate are behaving in a really selfish and dangerous manner, writes Alison O’Connor.

The HSE has said the uptake rate for the HPV vaccine has increased by 20 percentage points in the past two years, following intensive campaigning against, what the Health Minister has described as, “dangerous anti-vaccination myths”.

Cervical cancer could be eliminated in Ireland in the next 40 years, a new study has found.

GPs warned the HSE chronic backlogs in cervical cancer smear tests were putting the quality and accuracy of the checks at risk five months before the scandal was publicly revealed.

The HSE first became aware of thousands of women who will now need repeat smear checks as far back as November, the Tánaiste has told the Dáil.

Boys and girls will be given an equal opportunity to be protected from HPV-caused cancers from September next year.

The uptake for the HPV vaccine is now at 65%, up 15% in the past year.

The Irish Cancer Society has called on the Government to provide over €10m in funding over five years to extend HPV vaccinations programme to include boys.

Few Irish adults realise how prevalent HPV infection is or how much of a risk it poses to men, research has found.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) has begun a national public consultation on offering the HPV vaccine to boys.

It is possible to eliminate cervical cancer in Irish women within a generation with HPV testing and vaccination, the Irish Cancer Society has said.

At the moment only secondary school girls are offered the HPV vaccine which helps protect against the Human Papillomavirus.

There has been an 11% increase in the number of girls getting the HPV vaccine.

One of the country's leading paediatricians says the facts speak for themselves when it comes to the benefits of the HPV vaccine.

Bishop Phonsie Cullinan said Gardasil is only 70% safe, however, the worst that can be said against the vaccine is that it isn’t 100% effective, writes Terry Prone.

Ministers have urged the Church to leave clinical debates to the experts after one bishop claimed that the HPV cervical cancer vaccine is only “70%” safe.

Health Minister Simon Harris has again sought reassurances from his junior health minster over his stance on the HPV vaccine.

Vaccinations against a virus that can cause cervical cancer fell by half last year in Ireland amid scares over side-effects.

HSE boss Tony O’Brien has launched a scathing attack on campaigners against the HPV vaccine, accusing them of “emotional terrorism”.

At least 40 women will die because they refused to take up the HPV vaccine last year, according to the Irish Cancer Society.

Boys could be given the HPV vaccine, as part of new research been undertaken by HIQA.

The Irish Cancer Society has welcomed the findings of the Health Information and Quality Authority's (HIQA) assessment of cervical screening in Ireland.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has joined the chorus of concern at the steep decline in uptake rates in Ireland for the HPV vaccine, which helps protect against cervical cancer.

The reduction in uptake of the cervical cancer vaccine may influence a reduction in uptake of other childhood vaccines, a HSE health chief warns.

Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer for young Irish women, despite an effective screening programme and free vaccine. Why has there been such a dramatic fall in the number of girls getting vaccinated? asks Jessica Casey.

With 90 women dying here each year of cervical cancer, a leading health body has said parents can help to save their daughters’ lives by allowing them to be vaccinated against the HPV virus.

The Irish Cancer Society has warned parents not to be “taken in by the fakery on social media” in relation to the HPV vaccine, as figures show the uptake rate has fallen to 50%.

Only half of the teenage girls entitled to receive a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer started getting the jab last year.

The HPV vaccine is being offered to men aged 16-26 who have sex with men from January onwards.

More than 90 Irish women will die from cervical cancer this year, according to the HSE.

It’s almost back to school time in Ireland and for many first year girls this means being offered the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.

A support group for girls who believe they have been injured by the cervical cancer HPV vaccine has launched a national appeal for parents to sign up to a new register via http://regret.ie.

I’m a 50-year old woman, recently single and I’ve started dating. I’ve used condoms, but somehow I have contracted HPV. 

Boys may be included in the schools vaccination programme against the human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, it emerged yesterday.