Susie Long’s legacy is a damning indictment of our lack of care

THERE’S a justifiable anger in the air about the untimely and unnecessary death of Susie Long from bowel cancer due to the seven-month delay in getting a colonoscopy because she could not afford private healthcare.

There were pictures earlier this week of her dignified children Áine and Fergus and husband Conor as they laid her to rest. Tributes were paid to the courage she demonstrated in devoting so much of the limited time she had left to highlighting the crisis in our health services, hoping her personal tragedy could turn into a force for positive change.

At her funeral, her husband read a passage entitled “Not, how did she die, but how did she live?”