Vicky Phelan: Do not stop having smear tests

A terminally ill Limerick woman who last week settled a case for €2.5m has said she hopes her case does not deter other women from getting smear tests.

Vicky Phelan, who was incorrectly given the all-clear from a smear test in 2011 before developing cervical cancer, has called for the laboratories involved to lose their contract for checking the samples.

“What I don’t want happening is that people lose total faith in the system,” the mother of two said in an interview with Miriam O’Callaghan on RTÉ Radio 1.