Daniel McConnell: Laying the blame for the state of the claims against our State 

A much greater focus is needed as to how such claims are handled to prevent such instances happening again and again, writes Daniel McConnell

Vicky Phelan, the cancer patient whose case triggered the cervical smear test controversy arrives at Leinster House, Dublin, to give evidence to the Public Accounts Committee. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday May 16, 2018. See PA story IRISH Cancer. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Last year, my seven-year-old daughter Eliza broke her arm in the playground in the park near our house on a glorious summer’s day.

Days after the fall, I took her to Croke Park to watch Dublin stroll to victory.