'It is inhumane to drag a dying woman into court to get an apology'

Patricia Carrick. “If there was ever an advocate for CervicalCheck it was, and remains, Trish,' says husband Damien.“The system failed her but it’s still a good system as it has helped save so many other lives.”  Picture: Ciarán MacChoncarraige

Patricia Carrick has made the news twice in her life.

In 2017, millions of American TV viewers watched a programme that featured an Irish family that had travelled to Nebraska from Galway to witness that year’s solar eclipse.