Election 2024: Health — 'I wasn't dying enough for specialist cancer treatment'

A cancer patient who had to go to Germany for specialist treatment tells the Irish Examiner what she wants the next Government to do

Niamh Conroy, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 bowel cancer almost three years ago, has just returned from Frankfurt, Germany where she was successfully treated for inoperable liver metastases. Picture: Moya Nolan

Niamh Conroy has just been through “brutal” cancer treatment in Germany in the hopes of getting two more years with her four children.

She has seen waiting lists and delays become more common in cancer care since her diagnosis in 2022 when she was aged just 44. While she said much remains “brilliant”, she worries the trend is going the other way.