Mick Flannery's family settle action over mother's death from cervical cancer

The family's statement read outside court after the settlement asked: “What harm would it have done for the HSE to have said a simple sorry?"

The Flannery family (left to right), Brian, Eamonn, David, Sarah with her sons Liam and Kai, David and Mick outside the Four Courts on Tuesday after the settlement hearing. Picture: Collins Courts

The widower of a Cork woman who died of cervical cancer has hit out at the HSE for not saying sorry as he settled a High Court action over the alleged misdiagnosis of her smear slide.

Mother of five and microbiologist Elaine Flannery from Blarney was just 59 years of age when she died from metastatic cervical cancer in October 2014. Outside the Four Courts her family stood as a statement was read out on behalf of her grieving widower, 70-year-old David Flannery.