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Lack of trust causing women to put their lives at risk, CervicalCheck warns Recruitment difficulties jeopardise plans to transfer lab work from the US to Ireland
Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 00:00
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Dr Nóirín Russell, CervicalCheck clinical director, says ‘there’s a very very real risk that if the environment doesn’t change, we won’t have a screening programme’.
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A lack of trust in screening programmes is causing women with cervical cancer to put their lives and health at risk, CervicalCheck officials have warned.
A former caretaker at a boys school has being jailed for ten years for continuous sexual abuse of young boys at the school throughout the 1980s.
Bernard Browne (62) used the promise of small amounts of cash to entice the boys into situations where he would sexually molest them.
He would ejaculate while rubbing himself naked against them and convinced some of the children that he was only doing this to collect his sperm and donate it to childless couples.
Browne with a former address at Brighton Rd., Foxrock, Dublin pleaded guilty to nine counts of indecently assaulting three boys on dates between 1983 and 1990.
Robber whose crime featured on Joe Duffy to be sentenced next month
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A robber whose crime against two tourists near the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin featured on the Joe Duffy radio show will be sentenced for his role in the offence next month.
Paul Heaney (37) and Gareth Mallon (39), who had a realistic imitation firearm, robbed an Italian student of €60 and attempted to rob his teacher before fleeing the scene.
The court heard the case attracted some media attention and featured on the Liveline show on RTE radio.
Heaney, who was not armed during the offence, attended voluntarily at a garda station a few days later. Mallon was sentenced to four year imprisonment for his role last December.
I probably will not be here much longer Cervical cancer mum Lynsey Bennett settles case
The 32-year-old mother of two said she hoped she had done enough for her two daughters
Lynsey Bennett, of Killoe, Co Longford, supported by family and friends, outside the High Court after she settled her case. Picture: Collins Courts
Wed, 03 Feb, 2021 - 12:45
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A 32-year-old mother of two who is seriously ill with cervical cancer today settled her High Court action over the alleged misinterpretation of her cervical smear slides. The young mother afterwards stood outside the Four Courts and said: “I can now focus on my own fight to stay alive for as long as I can.”