Claire (Host)
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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You can leave some behind, Nevin.
Thanks a million.
You're welcome.
Now the cervical check scandal of 2018 revealed that 221 women had not been told that reviews of their earlier smear tests had identified missed abnormalities.
It led to major scrutiny and reform of Ireland's cervical screening programme and
While all that controversy was unfolding, my next guest was living her life as normal, blissfully unaware that she too would be caught up in a similar nightmare.
Leona Macken, you're very welcome to the programme.
Leona, I want to begin by asking you about Vicky Phelan.
Do you remember her standing outside the High Court?
Mm hmm.
Yeah, I do.
When that scandal emerged in 2018.
And did you place a real importance on getting smear tests done and keeping up to date on that?
Because that does take a toll on your body.
So that was in 2022.
And just to put in perspective, as you say, in 2016 and 2020, the test returned as normal, even though we know now there were obvious abnormalities there.
And when you experienced all that pain that you're talking about, the pelvic pain and the rest of it, I mean, when...
When did the high grade abnormalities show up?
When did you find out what was happening?
And at that meeting, then, you got a stage one cancer diagnosis, did you?
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