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Campaign for Kilkenny cancer hero to present President Biden with Shamrock on St Patrick’s Day gathers pace

By Colin Bartley 3rd February 2021 0

A number of online campaigns are gathering pace calling for Kilkenny’s cancer campaignerVicky Phelan to the White House for St Patrick’s Day to hand over the bowl of shamrock instead of Taoiseach Michéal Martin. The push to have the Mooncoin mother-of-two represent Ireland in the White House next month comes as she is currently in […]

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WATCH: ‘So very grateful’ – Kilkenny hero cancer campaigner begins treatment in US as new Vice PresientKamala gets Covid jab next door

By Colin Bartley 27th January 2021 0

Hero cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has shared her excitement after receiving the first dose of experimental treatment at a US clinic. The Cervical check campaigner and mother of two from Mooncoin also tweeted her joy to find out recently inaugurated US Vice President Kamala Harris was in the same facility as Vicky to receive the […]

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‘Humiliation, disrespect and deceit’ – Taoiseach apologises to Vicky Phelan and others ‘destroyed’ by cancer scandal

By Kilkenny Now 22nd October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A ‘Litany of failure’ is how Taoiseach Leo Varadkar described the cervical check screening process as he apologised to the women in Ireland whose lives were “destroyed” by the cancer scandal. One of those women Mr Varadkar was talking about was Kilkenny woman and cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan, who was in […]

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A life less ordinary: brave Kilkenny campaigner Vicky’s memoirs hit the shelves

By Kilkenny Now 12th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY’S inspirational cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan will see her first book go on sale today. ‘Overcoming’ is the moving memoir from the Mooncoin mother-of-two who rose to national prominence when she uncovered how hundreds of cervical smear tests had been misread. The 45-year-old was only diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2017, […]

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‘It’s for people I’m doing this, not awards’ – hero Kilkenny campaigner Vicky

By Kilkenny Now 26th April 2019 0

HERO campaigner Vicky Phelan has slammed ongoing delays in the cervical cancer screening process as “unacceptable”. The Kilkenny mother-of-two spoke out a year after she was awarded €2.5m in a High Court action over the alleged misreading of her cervical cancer smear. The Mooocoin woman was recently forced to take a step back from campaigning […]