The father of cervical cancer awareness campaigner Vicky Phelan who died last Monday has revealed how he “never thought” a person could feel “so lonely surrounded by so many”.
The mother-of-two originally from Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny but who lived in Annacotty, Co Limerick, lifted the lid in 2018 with a High Court case in 2018 over how her cervical smear tests were handled after the HSE outsourced them to a US firm.
The 48-year-old was awarded €2.5m in damages but without admission of liability by the HSE and she refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement prior to the settlement which was settled on the steps of the High Court just prior to the case being heard.
