Protests over the CervicalCheck screening controversy have been planned this weekend in Dublin and in the home town of Minister for Health Simon Harris – Greystones, Co Wicklow. Public anger over the failure to tell women diagnosed with cervical cancer that they had received false negative smear tests which missed cancer warnings is bringing people on to the streets in two protests. “We are a group of Irish women disgusted and saddened at the CervicalCheck scandal,” said the Protest Cervical Check group in an email. “I just feel that women in Greystones have a responsibility of some sort because we are in Simon Harris’s backyard,” said Chris Allen, a local women helping to organise the march. “We want to get vocal and try to let the politicians know that we won’t forget about it,” she said.

Source: The Irish Times May 14, 2018 20:29 UTC