Brother of nurse who died of cervical cancer sues Beaumont Hospital over smear test

The family had accepted what happened until the controversy broke in relation to cervical smear tests and the Vicky Phelan case in 2018

The hospital admits failings in relation to Ms McEvoy’s 2007 smear test which was reported as negative. File picture

Beaumont Hospital is being sued in the High Court over the alleged misreporting of a smear test of a nurse, who four years later died of cervical cancer.

Oonagh McEvoy, a heart and lung transplant co-ordinator and nurse at the Mater Hospital, was only 36 years of age when she died from metastatic cervical cancer on April 11, 2011.