HAEMOPHILIACS have accused the Government of betraying them in not pursuing the US pharmaceutical firms that supplied the State with contaminated blood products.

THE McBrearty family have racked up an estimated half-million euros in legal fees over the past eight years, not including potential fees of up to €1m for the Morris Tribunal.

The Irish Haemophilia Society has called on Health Minister Micheal Martin to change the rules of appeal for Hepatitis C sufferers who received compensation from a state tribunal in the late 1990s.