‘I want action, change and accountability — not your aide de camp at my funeral’
to light. I’m also writing as a woman living with a terminal illness, who is under no illusion that, in a w short years, I will also be dead. And I know many of the very same people who e about Ruth, after her th, will be paying tribute to me — and promising the with the publication of the Scally Report, the introduction of a Patient Safety Bill and the establishment of a tribunal, has been lost. The majority of the recommendations from the Scally Report have been implemented. Some of the more serious Indeed, this was a view shared by Lorraine Walsh, one of the two patient advocates who was handpicked by Dr Scally to sit on the CervicalCheck Steering Committee and who resigned in December 2019. There have been huge delays with the establishment of victory — for Ruth, for her family and for the women she stood up for, in a case she should never have been put through. On that day in May 2019, when Ruth made history, all she wanted to do was to move on with her life and spend whatever quality time Business Post revealed on its front page that the SCA was going to appeal. This was the first the Morrisseys heard of it. It wasn’t the first time a woman caught up in the CervicalCheck debacle had not been properly communicated to. The Scally Report had been leaked means it is very likely now that screening in Ireland will grind to a halt”. (Ciara Kelly, Twitter, May 4, 2019.) On March 19, 2020, almost 12 months after Ruth won her case in the High Court, and with Ruth’s health failing, the five-judge Supreme Court unanimously