Tánaiste: Cancer X-ray scandal shows 'shabbiness'

The Tánaiste Mary Coughlan has described as "shabbiness" the fact that almost 58,000 X-rays were never looked at by a radiologist in Tallaght hospital in Dublin for nearly five years.

Tánaiste: Cancer X-ray scandal shows 'shabbiness'

The Tánaiste Mary Coughlan has described as "shabbiness" the fact that almost 58,000 X-rays were never looked at by a radiologist in Tallaght hospital in Dublin for nearly five years.

One person's died and another's seriously ill undergoing treatment for cancer after their diagnoses were delayed as a result of the failures.

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