‘People don’t realise how bad the facilities are until they get it’

MOTHER of four Bridget Guiry had developed lesions on her liver by the time her breast cancer was detected.

For 20 days in a row, she travelled by mini-bus from her home in west Waterford to Cork for radiotherapy.

“It took an hour and a half each way for six minutes of radiotherapy. I did it 20 days in a row. I simply wouldn’t have been able for a 21st day,” the 48-year-old Dungarvan woman said.