Elaine Loughlin: CervicalCheck should be a good news story but is explaining another failure

Deputy Political Editor Elaine Loughlin laments the most recent CervicalCheck controversy which has taken the focus away from the promotion of the new more accurate HPV screening system which was introduced last year.

Sick, sore and tired of it all. That's how every Irish woman would describe the latest CervicalCheck controversy. It is yet another blunder which only diminishes the trust and faith women have in the system.

Cervical cancer is a wretched disease that attacks young women and cuts lives short. Irene Teap, Emma Mhic Mhathúna, Ruth Morrissey and Laura Brennan are names we have all become familiar with, but 90 more families each year will lose a loved one to cervical cancer.