‘Lives at risk’ as smear retests expire

Families affected by the cervical cancer tests scandal have warned women’s lives are still being put at risk after the Government admitted a thousand free checks given after the crisis are useless because of chronic delays in producing results.

Stephen Teap and Lorraine Walsh hit out after Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was forced to admit the Government’s own solution to the original tests crisis had led to even more problems.