Vicky Phelan, who exposed Irish smear tests scandal, dies at 48
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#65T79)
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.
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