Pain lasts a lifetime in our health service

It has been “a dreadful week” for the health services, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, reflecting on the fallout from the cervical cancer screening scandal.

If only it was just a week. For Vicky Phelan, dread has hung over her for the last four years. For Lorraine and Warren Reilly, the horrors that happen when health services fail have stayed with them daily for a decade.