Emma ‘shone light’ on scandal that claimed her life, aged 37
Emma Mhic Mhathúna was one of the key figures at the centre of the Cervical Check controversy.
The mother of five, aged 37, was originally from Dublin but had moved to Kerry in the past year and was raising a young family on her own. She had been given a diagnosis of terminal cancer in May of this year and the following month secured a €7.5m settlement in a case against US laboratory Quest Diagnostics for misreading her smears in 2010 and 2013, and the HSE for failing to disclose the findings of an audit.
