Several public figures have paid tribute to cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan following her death eary this morning.
Vicky died in Milford Hospice Limerick after a long battle with cervical cancer. The mother-of-two had been one of hundreds of women affected by the Cervical Check Scandal, which saw hundreds of women receive a false negative result in 2011.
RTE veteran Charlie Bird led tributes to Vicky, saying that his “heart was broken”. The two had become close friends after Charlie went public with his Motor Neuron Disease diagnosis.
