Screening scandal - Here come the cancer solicitors

SO, IT seems the prospect of rubbing salt into the wounds caused by the dodgy cancer diagnosis scandal at Portlaoise General Hospital has become very real.

Some of the women affected by this fiasco have contacted solicitors to assess the possibility of seeking damages from the authorities.

Given the depth of the scandal, especially how details of it were coldly announced in public before the women at the centre of the controversy were informed, it is not at all surprising that litigation is being considered.