Leona Macken

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309 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Jul

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Brendan O'Connor · “I want to make the women of Ireland safer” - Leona Mackin · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

Thank you so much, Clare.

It's lovely to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Do you remember that moment?

Yeah, I do.

And I remember feeling for her so much as like, you know, a mother thinking, God, how is she going to get up every morning and live her life knowing this has happened to her?

And, you know, I just felt so, so sorry for her.

I did follow the story and, you know, cervical cancer was something I was aware of anyway before all that.

And I just thought, oh, my God, this must be such a horror story, you know, and never in a million years that I think I'd be more or less living the same thing a few years later, like very short time later, actually.

Yeah, yeah.

So I actually paid for a smear test in, I think it was 2019 or 2009.

And then I went for my eligible smear in 2013 and that came back fine.

And then I was due one in 2016 and I got married in 2015 and we knew we wanted to start a family and stuff.

And I said, all right, I'm due my smear, I'll go off my smear.

Went for that, everything came back fine.

actually got pregnant, got on with my life, had a beautiful little girl in 2017.

And then I had my second little girl in 2019 who I was actually due a smear on while I was pregnant on her.

And then I waited till I had my little girl in 2019 and went for another smear.

And then that, when I went for that smear, they were kind of like, it's not very clear, you know, we can't really see.

Like this was actually, you know, when I was in getting it done.

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