The family of a 30-year-old woman who died of cancer eight years ago has secured €325,000 in settlement of their High Court action relating to the handling of smear tests carried out on the woman.
The court was told that three smear tests were carried out on Ms Anne Broderick, known as Lulu, between 1989 and 1993 in the UK and Ireland but she was not told of abnormalities or they were not detected.
Ms Broderick died in 1998 when her daughter was aged just five years. Her family had sued the Coombe Hospital, Dublin and the Mount Vernon Hopsital in Middlesex, England for damages for mental distress arising from the circumstances of Ms Broderick's death.