Women can get PIP refund from credit cards

Women who paid for defective breast implants by credit card may have a chance of getting their money back, it has emerged.

Around 1,500 Irish women have been affected by the health scare linked to the French-made PIP implants, which contained industrial-grade silicon gel.

A solicitor representing a number of women who received the implants said Irish women should take the lead from a woman in Britain who had the full cost of her original breast augmentation with PIP implants reimbursed by her credit card company because they were faulty goods.