Irish Examiner view: Thank you, Vicky

Vicky Phelan 'wanted the truth to be known so that others were not left in the dark by CervicalCheck as she had been'. Picture: Cathal Noonan

Vicky Phelan made the personal political the day she stood outside the High Court on April 25, 2018, to make a statement to a knot of journalists. 

She had just been awarded a €2.5m settlement, without an admission of liability, against Clinical Pathology Laboratories for an incorrect smear test result. Despite having terminal cancer, Vicky Phelan was not about to go quietly.