Mhic Mhathúna to start legal action over missed cancer warning‘I need the money now, not when I’m dead,’ says terminally ill woman on plans for courtThu May 24 2018 - 02:50
Data Protection Commissioner finalising details of INM investigationCommissioner preparing to investigate alleged data breach at media companySat May 19 2018 - 04:20
CervicalCheck doctors’ letters ‘to be changed if women died’Cancer-screening service intended to tell medics, but not patients, of audit resultsSat May 19 2018 - 02:00
Poll: Government ratings slump in wake of cancer scandalNew legal actions heap pressure on response to CervicalCheck controversyFri May 18 2018 - 06:46
Cancer scandal: Another day of shock over treatmentHealth official tells PAC she had no idea news of diagnoses had not been passed onFri May 18 2018 - 06:00
CervicalCheck took two years to draft leaflet informing women of false testsNewly released records show doctors were unhappy onus was on them to tell womenThu May 17 2018 - 21:01
CervicalCheck erred in ‘not closing loop’ with patientsProgramme’s manager concedes mistake in not telling women of incorrect smear testsThu May 17 2018 - 20:44
CervicalCheck took two years to draft leaflet following false tests, documents showSix out of 11 women in Limerick not told of audit until after Vicky Phelan case settledThu May 17 2018 - 18:43
Acting HSE head ‘listening intently’ to Vicky PhelanTerminally-ill Limerick woman seeking accountability over CervicalCheck scandalThu May 17 2018 - 12:50
Tensions in CervicalCheck over telling women of test errors revealedDoctors were being ‘put at a disadvantage’ in deciding who should or should not be toldThu May 17 2018 - 12:17
Top health officials’ knowledge of CervicalCheck policy revealedVicky Phelan and Stephen Teap to appear before Public Accounts CommitteeWed May 16 2018 - 01:01
CervicalCheck queried policy of ‘open disclosure’ on cancer audits in 2016Doctors told of limits on applying policy for screening services with ‘inherent error rate’Tue May 15 2018 - 21:59
Varadkar must act fast to remove women from ‘three-way battles’Solicitor urges Taoiseach to clarify how State will take over women’s cases against US labsTue May 15 2018 - 21:39
Department ‘aware’ of CervicalCheck policy on informing womenDoctor expresses concern about difficulties he has met in carrying out scoping inquiryTue May 15 2018 - 16:16
CervicalCheck director expressed ‘regret for any misunderstanding’ on false testsEmail shows clinical director regretted any ‘perceived lack of clarity’ in cancer reviewTue May 15 2018 - 00:32
Cancer scandal protest planned for Simon Harris’s home townPeople to take to streets in Greystones and Dublin over CervicalCheck failingsMon May 14 2018 - 21:35
Government faces clash with committee over parallel cancer inquiryPublic Accounts Committee will continue to hold hearings on CervicalCheck controversyMon May 14 2018 - 01:00
Varadkar stands by chief medical officer over 2016 memosAll involved in cancer screening controversy will have to account for actions, says TaoiseachFri May 11 2018 - 23:05
It hurts: Husband of cancer victim shocked at 2016 memosStephen Teap asks: should Leo Varadkar have known about the 2016 memos?Fri May 11 2018 - 11:12
HSE knew CervicalCheck was considering not telling some women - Phelan solicitorMemos show health chief told in 2016 disclosure of false tests still only a possibilityThu May 10 2018 - 22:21
Vicky Phelan raised concerns inquiry’s terms did not cover patient safetyCork widower happy ‘independent’ reviewer is investigating smear-test scandalThu May 10 2018 - 01:00
Investigating smear testing scandal quickly and publicly will be a challengeScoping inquiry buys Minister time to consider ways of holding a part-public inquiryThu May 10 2018 - 01:00
Minister considers public hearings in CervicalCheck investigationSimon Harris explores how to hold ‘bespoke’ inquiry to permit women to testify in publicThu May 10 2018 - 00:00
Harris calls for condemnation of ‘disgusting’ graphic abortion postersPosters depicting Minister’s face alongside aborted foetus erected near his Wicklow homeWed May 09 2018 - 12:50
Harris backs HSE’s O’Brien as he declines to resign over cancer scandalLess than half the women calling CervicalCheck helpline have received a call backWed May 09 2018 - 12:05
Women who got false cancer results may still face court casesState agency says it cannot accept liability for smear tests carried out by US laboratoriesWed May 09 2018 - 01:00
Three women at centre of legal cases over false smear tests have diedSinn Féin TD accuses State Claims Agency of acting like Pontius Pilate by ‘washing hands’ of womenTue May 08 2018 - 19:46
State cannot treat women sympathetically if labs run cases - Phelan’s solicitorLawyer for terminally ill woman rejects agency’s assurances to treat cases sensitivelyTue May 08 2018 - 19:04
Dr Colm Henry and Dr Tony HolohanProfiles of chief clinical officer of HSE and chief medical officer at Department of HealthThu May 03 2018 - 20:41
HSE officer regrets not checking if women were told of false testsDr Colm Henry said he took assurances that patients were being informed ‘at face value’Thu May 03 2018 - 20:23
Inquiry into CervicalCheck scandal to report by June‘Scoping exercise’ before Government decides on commission of investigationThu May 03 2018 - 01:00
Taoiseach defends relationship with chair of firm that HSE chief has joinedVaradkar backs Minister’s consent granted to O’Brien to take up board role at US firmThu May 03 2018 - 01:00
Minister allowed O’Brien to join US firm while running HSEO’Brien received ‘written consent’ to take up role months before finishing at HSEWed May 02 2018 - 03:00
HSE chief in line for large fees and share options from US firmO’Brien joined female contraceptive maker before he announced he was leaving HSEWed May 02 2018 - 02:53
CervicalCheck scandal: What is it all about?How a Limerick woman’s court case exposed a failure to share false smear tests resultsTue May 01 2018 - 20:40
Barnier tries to calm politics around unresolved Border issueEU’s Brexit negotiator presses British for rapid agreement as DUP raises temperatureTue May 01 2018 - 01:37
‘Real risk’ to EU-UK deal without hard border solution - BarnierVaradkar and Barnier put further pressure on UK to suggest detailed border solutionsTue May 01 2018 - 01:00
Barnier sidesteps Foster’s criticisms, saying he will not engage in ‘polemics’EU’s Brexit negotiator responds to DUP leader by saying there is ‘no spirit of revenge’Mon Apr 30 2018 - 18:34
Cervical cancer: Government to establish statutory inquiryHSE says 162 women not told of delayed diagnosisMon Apr 30 2018 - 14:58
Barnier warns of ‘real risk’ of no Brexit dealEU’s chief negotiator says preparations must be made for no agreement on visit to Border areaMon Apr 30 2018 - 14:01
CervicalCheck chief did not want some women told of false resultsDr Gráinne Flannelly told Limerick gynaecologist to file audited test results insteadSat Apr 28 2018 - 04:00
HSE head apologises to Limerick woman for false smear testDirector general says sorry to Vicky Phelan for delay in being told about incorrect testFri Apr 27 2018 - 21:44
Britain keen to make progress on Border by June – UK ministerLidington ‘very determined’ to agree solution but October deadline remains for Brexit dealFri Apr 27 2018 - 16:32
Over 200 cervical cancer cases should have had ‘earlier’ interventionVicky Phelan row: Simon Harris orders review of screening to ensure best practiceFri Apr 27 2018 - 03:00
Row over false smear-test results lasted more than a yearCervicalCheck director and Limerick doctor clashed over who should tell affected womenFri Apr 27 2018 - 02:00
Timber industry sees Border checks as part of solution in hard BrexitCopy measures in use on US-Canadian and Norwegian-Swedish borders, report suggestsThu Apr 26 2018 - 16:22
Watchdog warned about risk to ‘free press’ from alleged INM data breachClaims of journalists’ emails being accessed raise ‘very serious public interest issues’Tue Apr 24 2018 - 08:55
‘Carving out’ North from UK post-Brexit an ‘absolute deal breaker’Leading anti-Brexit MP tells conference that boundary in the Irish Sea ‘won’t happen’Mon Apr 23 2018 - 18:08
Master of compromise Bertie Ahern warns against ‘evil hour’ Brexit border dealThree former taoisigh raise urgent need for solutions to avoid hard borderMon Apr 23 2018 - 12:29
Buckley’s exit ‘does not diminish concerns’ about INM, watchdog saysCorporate law regulator criticised media company’s governance and managementMon Apr 23 2018 - 05:05
