Vicky Phelan, who exposed Irish smear tests scandal, dies at 48

Campaigner highlighted health service failures after receiving a false negative cervical cancer result in 2011

It was a death foretold but the news still hit Ireland hard: Vicky Phelan, a terminally ill campaigner who exposed a cervical cancer screening scandal, died on Monday. She was 48.

President Michael D Higgins led an outpouring of tributes to Phelan's courage and how she shone a light on health service failures that affected hundreds of other women.