Taoiseach apologises to those 'whose lives were shattered' over failures in cervical screening

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said women caught up in the cervical check cancer scandal suffered a "litany of failures" as he apologised for the lives that were "shattered" in the Dáil earlier today.

Delivering a state apology to women and families involved in the screening crisis, Mr Varadkar pledged that the same mistakes would never take place again.